Chelsie Y.

Carvajal
2nd Year BEED Language Education EED111 B5

Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education

Language is necessary since it aids communication, but it can also serve as a language
barrier between two people. For example, if two men speak only Marathi and the other only
English, they would not be able to communicate with each other. Language is both good and
bad and If two men of evolution do not speak a common language, how can they communicate
and how will humanity progress?

To help children acquire adequate cognitive and thinking skills that will enable them to
function equally well in a variety of languages, beginning with their mother tongue and
progressing to Filipino and then English, as well as to conserve the Philippine cultural treasure.
Since 1953, UNESCO has promoted mother tongue teaching in primary schools, emphasizing
the benefits of mother tongue education from the start: Parents are more likely to engage with
teachers and invest in their children's schooling, and children are more likely to attend and excel
in kindergarten. Girls and rural children with fewer exposure to a dominant language stay in
school longer and repeat grades less often and children in multilingual education learn stronger
thought skills than their monolingual peers and children in multilingual education develop better
thinking skills than their monolingual peers. There are tons of principles that UNESCO have put
through but after watching the video Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education and have
reflected, I am grateful with them. They have helped so much but what I have also reflected is
that It doesn't matter whether you were educated in your mother tongue or some other
secondary languages as long as you can thoroughly comprehend what you're learning. We seem
to have more words in the language because our mother tongue serves as a default language in
our brain, which is a better feature when knowing something and being able to describe it clearly
afterwards. On the other hand, as long as we are familiar with the subject matter, issues such as
the value of schooling in the mother tongue should be a minor concern. As a result, I believe that
having an education in your mother tongue is not as necessary as it seems, as long as you can
comprehend what you are learning.