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Activity #1

1.What is MTB-MLE?

Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB MLE) programs serve learners

of non-dominant language communities who do not understand or speak the
language of instruction when they begin their formal education.

In MTB MLE programs, students begin with what they know—their language and
culture, knowledge and experience—as the foundation for learning in school. Well-
planned and well-implemented MTB MLE programs produce students who are
multilingual and multicultural and who contribute to their community’s and their
nation’s development goals.

2.What is the purpose of MTB-MLE?

To develop appropriate cognitive and reasoning skills enabling children to operate

equally in different languages – starting in the mother tongue with transition to Filipino
and then English and to preserve the Philippine cultural treasure as well.
3.What is the meaning of Mother tongue based multil-lingual education?
Mother tongue education refers to any form of schooling that makes use of the
language or languages that children are most familiar with. This is usually the language
that children speak at home with their family. The ‘mother tongue’ does not have to be
the language spoken by the mother. Children can and often do speak more than one or
even two languages at home. For example, they may speak one language with their
mother, another with their father and a third with their grandparents. Children who speak
a different language at home than the language in which they are taught at school will
by definition become bilingual or multilingual. The degree to which they become
bilingual may vary considerably however and depends on the goal of the school
programme.
4.Why is mother tongue implemented?
Mother Tongue Based-Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) has carved its niche as a
practical and effective approach in the educational landscape. It offers a plausible
framework for preparing coming generations to become better adaptive and even rich
contributors in the globalized and intercultural world. The gate to the new millennium
has brought great zeal in and at the same time contestations around this educational
alternative.
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ACTIVITY #2
1. What is the purpose of MTB-MLE?

The purpose of MTB-MLE is to develop appropriate cognitive and reasoning skills enabling children
to operate equally in different languages – starting in the mother tongue with transition to Filipino and
then English and to preserve the Philippine cultural treasure as well

2. What is the meaning of mother tongue multilingual education?

MOTHER TONGUE BASED- MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION  MLE refers to “first-language-first”

education, that is schooling which begins in the mother tongue and transitions to additional
languages.  MLE is the use of more than two languages for literacy and instruction. It starts from
where the learners are, and from what they already know. This means learning to read and write in
their first language or L1, and also teaching subjects like mathematics, science, health, and social
studies in the L1.

3. Do you think Mtb-MLE is effective?

Children learn better in their mother tongue. UNESCO has encouraged mother tongue
instruction in primary education since 1953 (UNESCO, 1953) and UNESCO highlights
the advantages of mother tongue education  right from the start: children are more likely
to enroll and succeed in school (Kosonen, 2005); parents are more likely to
communicate with teachers and participate in their children’s learning (Benson, 2002);
girls and rural children with less exposure to a dominant language stay in school longer
and repeat grades less often (Hovens, 2002; UNESCO Bangkok, 2005); and children in
multilingual  education tend to develop better thinking skills compared to  their
monolingual peers (e.g., Bialystok, 2001; Cummins, 2000; King & Mackey, 2007).Some
educators argue that only those countries where the student’s first language is the
language of instruction are likely to achieve the goals of Education for All. Research
also suggests that engaging marginalized children in school through mother-tongue
based, multilingual education (MTB-MLE) is a successful model (Benson & Kosonen,
2013; Yiakoumetti, 2012). 
4.what depedorder issuances the implementati neson of mtbmle?
DepEd Order No. 16 series of 2012, "Guidelines on the implementation of the Mother Tongue
Based-Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) Tagalog Kapampangan Pangasinense Iloko Bikol
Cebuano Hiligaynon Waray Tausug Maguindanaoan Maranao Chabacano.