At the start of each year, pre-school teacher Nazreen Banu Surali Habeeb Mohamed is faced with the challenge of getting new pre-school pupils to reply to her in their mother tongue, Tamil. Most ...

Mother tongue teachers have found a new revenue stream; children and adults seeking to learn vernacular languages. From holiday language boot camps to paid storytelling sessions and weekend online ...

SINGAPORE – A small-scale pilot will be launched at two new pre-schools by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to study the impact on young children when they have more exposure to mother tongue language ...