KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 1,457 national primary schools have included Arabic Communications, Tamil or Chinese in their formal curriculum as Bahasa Tambahan under a new Education Ministry policy.
The upgrading of such languages from “pupils own language” (POL) classes held after school to languages offered to every pupil within the formal timetable is to promote a “better understanding of each other’s culture,” said Education director-general Datuk Abdul Rafie Mahat.
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