Section 2Sec./Art. 2

The Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) in Monolingual Classes; Requirements; Monolingual Classes and Language Mapping. - The principles and framework of MTB-MLE as embodied under Section 5(f) of Republic Act No. 10533 may be applied in monolingual classes: Provided, That the Mother Tongue to be used as medium of instruction shall comply with following requirements: an official orthography developed and published by the Komisyon saWikang Filipino (KWF); officially documented vocabulary published by the MWF such as glossary, dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus; literature on languages and culture, such as big books, small books, picture stories, or wordless picture books; grammar book; and availability of teachers in the school who speak and are trained to teach in the Mother Tongue.

For purposes of this Act, a monolingual class shall refer to a group of learners who speak the same Mother Tongue and are enrolled in the same graded level in a given school year.ℒαwρhi৷ The Department of Education (DepEd) shall, in consultation with the KWF, develop a language mapping policy within one (1) year from the effectivity of this Act and implement a language mapping framework to properly identify and classify learners based on their Mother Tongue in order to systematically determine the existence of monolingual classes per year.