A land of trilinguals Chinese-medium schools are a constituent part of Malaysia's diverse education system. To meet the needs of the country's three major ethnic groups, primary schools employ one of three languages as the principal language of instruction: Malay, Chinese, and Tamil.
三語兒童不稀奇華語文教育是馬國多元教育系統的一支。為因應境內三大種族的需求，馬來西亞小學分為馬來文、華文、淡米爾文（印度文）三類，以各母語做教學語言，且都由政府辦理。