MOTHER TONGUE-

BASED
MULTILINGUAL
EDUCATION
WHAT IS THE
"MOTHER
TONGUE"?
•A person's mother tongue or native language/
L1 is the language learned in the home. It is the
language that the child knows best and in
which most cognitive, and sociocultural
development occurs; it is the matrix within
the human personality is formed and learns to
thrive.
WHAT IS MTBMLE?
•Itis a government banner
program for education as a salient
part of the implementation of the
k-12 basic education program.
•Legal basis
•DepED Order No. 74, s. 2009
• Institutionalizing Mother Tongue – Based Multilingual
Education (MTB-MLE)
• 1987 constitution (Article XIV sec. 7)
• Section 14. The State shall foster the preservation,
enrichment, and dynamic evolution of a Filipino
national culture based on the principle of unity in
diversity in a climate of free artistic and intellectual
expression.
WHY MTBMLE IS
IMPLEMENTED?
•Mother tongue develops a child's
personal, social and cultural
identity. Using mother tongue helps
a child develop their critical thinking
and literacy skills. Research shows
that children learning in mother
tongue adopt a better understanding
of the curriculum.
 Mother tongue-based multilingual
education(MTB-MLE) is a formal or
non-formal in which the learner's mother
tongue and additional language are used
in the classroom. Learners begin their It promotes socio-cultural and socio-
education in the language they emotional development of a child
understand best (L1) and develop a
strong foundation in their mother tongue
language before adding additional
language.
 The purpose of a
multilingual education
program is to develop Reading in the
appropriate cognitive and mother tongue or the origin
Once we learn to read we
reasoning skills enabling of culture the child knows
never have to learn again.
children to operate equally enables immediate
in different language; comprehension.
starting in the mother
tongue.
 FOUR
DEVELOPMENTAL
ASPECT IN MTBMLE
 1. Language development
They will be
Student establish a prepared to use
They will build a
strong educational both/all of their
good "bridge" to
foundation in the language for
the school
language they know success in school
language(s)
best and for life-long
learning
 2. Cognitive Development
School activities will engage learners to move well
beyond the basic question of who, what, when,
 Cognitive development begins at home and at birth
and where to cover all higher order thinking skills in
the learner's L1

These higher order thinking skills will:

Transfer the other language once enough Filipino or
Be used in the process of acquiring English and
English has been acquired to use these skills in
Filipino effectively
the thinking and articulating thought 
3. ACADEMIC
DEVELOPMENT
STUDENTS WILL THEY WILL BE
ACHIEVE GOVERNME PREPARED TO
NT COMPETENCY ENTER AND ACHIEVE
IN EACH AREA AND,  WELL IN
AT THE END OF THE MAINSTREAM
THE PROGRAM EDUCATION SYSTEM
 4. Socio-cultural
development
They will be prepared to
Student will be proud of contribute productively to
their heritage and culture, their own community and
and respect language and to the larger society.
cultures of others