Mother Tongue it is!

An article of GMA Network named “K to12: Lessons to be taught in mother tongue to help students learn better and stay in school” by Richelle Sy-Kho. In that article, Mother tongue- based Multi-lingual education (MTB-MLE) is the main topic. The k to 12 program will be using the MTB-MLE from kindergarten to Grade 3 in both public and private schools.

Yolanda Quijano , DepEd Undersecretary, said that this kind of teaching will help the students easily understand the lesson and fill the sense of the children with sense of nationalism. Students taught in their native language learn better than foreign languages based on studies.

English and Filipino are still required even if there is a multi-language education. Another reason why this multi-language is part of the k to 12 program is to improve the comprehension skill of a student and mostly to reduce the drop outs rate of students.

That article by Richell Sy-Kho she emphasize to MTB-MLE which is the positive side of the k to 12 program. This MTB-MLE is the first step of the k to 12 program in order that the student will be ready going to the next level.