Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics Mother Tongue-Based Instruction The learning programme is delivered entirely in children’s L1 Malone& Malone, Teacher education for mother tongue4based multilingual education 2 communicationandfor life4long learning. The mother tongue subject becomes a part of the curriculum. mother tongue/s. The 17 Abadzi, H. 2006. 74, series of 2009). Hence the principle of an ‘additive approach’ to language learning and the value of at least six years of mother tongue education, with the gradual introduction of English as a co-teaching medium until the end of Pri - mary school, as promoted but not implemented in the 1997 Language in Education Policy. The mother tongue is used as a medium of instruction in all learning areas except in the teaching of Filipino and English subjects. There is debate whether students to be taught in their mother 18 Dutcher, N. 2003. a) Discuss some theories you are familiar with, b) Compare and contrast two theories you are familiar with: consider the perception of the process of acquisition, processes involved, the role of the environment, strengths and weaknesses of the theories… 10. their mother tongue, alongside which they are then progressively introduced to reading, writing and speaking English, for skills transfer. countries, which finds instruction in mother tongue to be correlated with higher school enrolment and attendance. Further to this, the effectiveness of a MT will be discussed in a formal setting and main aspects of education such as access, learning abilities and But while we talk about the mother tongue instruction we take the second meaning of the term. theories can be considered as a great pendulum cycled from Skinnerian environmentalism to Piagetian constructivism to Chomskian innatism. EFFECTIVENESS OF MOTHER TONGUE-BASED INSTRUCTION ON PUPILS' ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS A MASTERS THESIS MASTERS OF ARTS IN EDUCATION major in EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION Education systems inattentive to mother tongue languages different from the second language (L2) used for instruction have not provided opportunities for acquisition of the L2 before literacy development, nor have given necessary support in learning literacy basic skills in the child’s mother tongue.Interdisciplinary studies The Omusati education region was ranked low in the Junior Secondary Certificate examination results for 2008/2009, by the Ministry of Education (MoE, 2009b), so Department of Education (DepEd) has implemented the use of mother tongue as a channel of instruction (DepEd order No. How do children acquire their mother tongue? Mother-tongue education might also actually make the acquisition of a second language easier. Mother tongue instruction may have two connotations: teaching mother tongue itself and imparting formal education in the first language of students. Promise and Perils of Mother Tongue Education. For thesereasons, and as seen below,a new approach toteacher education is neededforMTB MLE. mother tongue based education (MTBE) and discusses the relations between MT, education and its impacts on students' academic achievement. Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) One of the changes in Basic Education Curriculum brought about by the new K-12 program is the introduction of Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) specifically in Kindergarten, Grades 1, 2 and 3 to support the goal of “ Every Child- A- Reader and A –Writer” by Grade 1.”