Mother Tongue

Mother Tongue-Based
Multilingual Education
(MTB MLE)
Teacher Angelica
MOTHER TONGUE
Mother Tongue referred to as your first language or native
language. It is the language that you most commonly speak.
However, mother tongue is always referencing the language
that the child has used from birth for important and
impacting times in the child’s life.
MOTHER TONGUE
The mother tongue meaning for a child involves more

than just language and includes the child’s personal,
social and cultural identity.
MOTHER TONGUE
The importance of mother tongue is studied because when children
develop their mother tongue, they are simultaneously fostering a
whole host of other essential skills, such as critical thinking and
literacy skills. It is these skills that they take with them into formal
education, and research tells us that any skills and concepts gained in
the learner’s home language don’t have to be re-taught when they
transfer to a second language.
Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education
(MTB MLE)
Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB MLE) is one of

the distinctive features of the K to 12 program that was signed into a
law on May 15, 2013 by former President Benigno Aquino III. The
introduction of the MTB-MLE, specifically from Kindergarten to Grade
3, is grounded on the belief that children learn best if the language used
in instruction in understandable and accessible to the young learners.
LANGUAGE
• Language is the basis of all communication and the primary instrument
of thought.
• Language is the foundation of all human relationships. All human
relationships are established on the ability of people to communicate
effectively with each other. Language enables people to access, process,
and assess information, to engage with wider and more diverse
communities, and to learn about the role of language in their own lives,
and their own and other cultures.
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
• Language acquisition (a natural process and involves "picking up"
language in a nonconscious way through exposure to language, not by
studying it)
• Language learning (is conscious or intentional process which may involve
studying the language, paying attention to grammar rules)
• Children "acquire" their first language and get to know its rules through
exposure and by being exposed to examples of the language and by using
it. This is part of the theory of "fhirst language acquisition."
SECOND LANGUAGE
• "Second language acquisition" is the process, and the study of the
process, by which people learn a language that is not their native
language.
• Second language learners acquire language through exposure to many
different examples of the language, by reading it and by hearing it in
their environment. We listen and read and develop an understanding of
language over a period of time before we eventually use it ourselves.
• In this lesson, it is important that you fully understand how we ended up
adopting the MTB-MLE. It all began with the Lingua Franca Education
Project (LFEP) where: the Department of Education, Culture and Sports
embarked on a pilot study called Lingua Franca Education Project in SY
1999-2000 which was aimed to define and implement a national bridging
program from the vernacular to Filipino, and later English to develop
initial literacy for use in public schools. Through the bridging program,
an alternative curriculum will be used in acquiring basic literacy and
numeracy skills with the local lingua franca as the language of
instruction.
• the pilot study involved two Grade 1 classes from each of the 16
regions. One was the experimental class and the other the control
class.
• two Grade 1 teachers from each of the experimental schools, together
with the principal, underwent training before the pilot study. One
teacher handled the Grade 1 experimental class while the other taught
the alternate class.
The Lingua Franca used in the pilot study were as follows:
• Regions , l1, CAR - Ilocano

• Regions ll, IV, V, VI, XIl, ARMM, NCR-Tagalog
• Regions Vll, VIl, IX, X, XI, CARAGA - Cebuano

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Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB MLE) is one of

• Regions , l1, CAR - Ilocano

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