Promise 28: Use of mother-language instruction

education
Posted at 07/25/2010 12:28 AM | Updated as of 07/18/2012 12:21 AM
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UNESCO has proven that young children learn best in their mother tongue before moving on to English in higher grades. I fully support the UNESCO-tried and tested formula on mother tongue instruction. From pre-school to Grade 3, we will use the mother tongue as the medium of instruction while teaching English and Filipino as subjects.
 
From Grades 4-6 (7), we will increasingly use English as the medium of instruction for science & math and Filipino for Araling Panlipunan (social studies). For High School, English should be the medium of instruction for science, math & English; Filipino for AP, Filipino and tech-voc education.
 
My view: We should become tri-lingual as a country.
Learn English well and connect to the World.
Learn Filipino well and connect to our country.
Retain your dialect and connect to your heritage.
 
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The Aquino campaign platform: Action plans on Education
 
 

 

March 22, 2012: The St. Louis University-Baguio, SIL International and the 170+ Talaytayan MLE Incorporated held the 2012 Training-Workshop on Bridging Between Languages in Mother Language-Based Education (MLBE) Under the K-to-12 Curriculum. (Continue Reading)

May 10, 2012: The mother tongue or local language will be used to teach students in kindergarten to Grade 3, except during English and Filipino language classes. From Grade 4 to Grade 12, English will be used in most of the subjects. (Continue Reading)

 

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