Tag page - mother tongue based learning

Describing it as a "significant setback" in the pursuit of quality education, teachers' groups lamented the passage of a law that discontinues the use of the mother tongue in Kindergarten to Grade 3. (DepEd file photo) In separate statements, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines and...

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (Senate PRIB) Citing the lack of studies on the use of mother tongue-based education in a multilingual setting prior to the policy’s implementation, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian described the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) in the Philippines as an...