The Education Minister, Desmond Lee, made this announcement on August 1.

The Tamil language elective programme will be available at more schools.

Two junior colleges and three secondary schools already offer this programme. Now, more students can join in.

Anderson Serangoon Junior College will also offer the Chinese language elective programme.

The Malay language programme will be expanded for students who want to learn it as a third language.

National Junior College will start offering the Malay language programme from 2027.

The Minister said they want to help students learn mother tongues more deeply.

They also want to improve mother tongue language education at other levels.

The government is testing a new way to teach mother tongue languages at preschools. It seems to be working.

The language elective programme is for students who are good at languages and want to learn more.

This programme helps students learn about their mother tongue language and culture.

A new system will help teachers mark Chinese language essays from September.

This system will help teachers with routine marking tasks.

The Minister said this will give teachers more time to help students who need it.

Teachers will still be in charge of giving feedback to students.

Teachers can also change the system to suit students with different language skills.

A new programme will help parents teach their babies Chinese through play.

Similar programmes will be made for Malay and Tamil languages.