What Is The MLE Innovative Approach To Learning?

1. What is the MLE innovative approach to learning?
The Multi-lingual Education innovative approaches to learning are the

following: the development of the good curricula, the training of good teachers in
the required languages, content and methodology, the production of good
teaching materials and the empowerment of the community. The Multi-lingual
Education will not work when one simply changes the language by translating
existing materials into the local language.
2. What kind of learners does MLE intend to produce?

The Multi-lingual Education aims to produce learners who are multi-
literate, multilingual and multi-cultural. Multi-literate is an individual who can read
and write competently in the local language, the national language, and one or
more languages of wider communication such as English. The multilingual can
use these languages in various situations and interactions for learning in school.
While the multi-cultural can live and work harmoniously with people of cultural
backgrounds that are different from their own, they are comfortable living and
working with people from outside their community while maintaining their love
and respect for their home culture and community.
3. What is the perspective on mother based instruction in the newly

implemented K to 12 curriculum?
`The K to 12 curriculum is implemented because of the global needs,
which it aims to rationalize its content in order to improve students skills and
contribute to the fulfillment of functional literacy. The mother tongue based
instruction is one of the refinements of the newly implemented curriculum. During
this past decade, there were only three countries in the world that do not have
the K to 12 curriculum. These were the countries of Djibouti, Angola and
Philippines, until recently, in June 2012, the Philippines has finally implemented
the K to 12 curriculum. One of its educational mandates is the introduction of the
Mother Tongue Based instruction specifically in the Kindergarten, and grades 1,
2 and 3 as one of the academic features of the recently implemented K to12
Curriculum.
The mother tongue is used as a medium of instruction in all learning areas
except in the teaching of Filipino and English subjects. The mother tongue
subject becomes a part of the curriculum. The vernacular of the learner is used
on the development of reading and speaking from Grades 1 to 3. Philippines is a
country of multi-dialectal learners, the use of mother tongue as the medium of
instruction leads the bilingual learners to acknowledge their roots which lead to
the appreciation of cultural linguistic heritage of the country. The use of multiple
languages in the learning institutions may be attributed to various circumstances,
such as the linguistic diversity of a country, cultural heritage, social context and
religious attitudes. The use of the mother tongue along instruction mirrors the
aspiration of learners to promote national and cultural distinctiveness. Keeping
the Philippine local languages alive ensures that the local languages will continue
to be appreciated by Filipinos. Amidst the trends of globalization, local dialects
can survive through the constant use of the native speakers.
Some Filipinos are trilingual, speaking an indigenous language plus

Filipino, and English. Most Filipinos continue to primarily speak their indigenous
language, rather than the national language. Bilingualism becomes the trend
among Filipino learners. In fact, bilingual instruction allows teachers and students
to interact and learn instinctively creating participatory learning atmosphere that
contribute much to cognitive as well as linguistic development. Teachers have
diverse perception on whether or not Mother-tongue Based Multi-lingual
Education is pedagogically appropriate for them and their pupils. At present, the
Mother-tongue Based Multi-lingual Education is being implemented in two
subjects of the K to 12 curriculum first as a separate subject area among grades
1-3 and second as medium of instruction among the Filipino learners who are
bilinguals in nature.
4. What is your perception on the use of mother tongue along instruction in

teaching the three subject area?
Since language is the tool for academic development and the core of
cultural identity and intercultural sustenance, the mother tongue based is
important to implement because it can help the children to learn faster and better
if they are being instructed by their teachers using their respective dialects which
they initially learned at their respective homes. Children cannot easily learn the
language, they need to translate the foreign language to their native language in
order to understand if the mother tongue based is not implemented then the
children will struggle to understand, familiarize, learn, and use the other
language. Using of mother tongue as the medium of instruction in teaching the
three subject area is very god because it develops appropriate cognitive and
reasoning skills enabling children to operate equally in different languages
starting in the mother tongue with transition to Filipino and then English and to
preserve the Philippine cultural treasure as well.

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1. What is the MLE innovative approach to learning?

The Multi-lingual Education innovative approaches to learning are the

2. What kind of learners does MLE intend to produce?

3. What is the perspective on mother based instruction in the newly

Some Filipinos are trilingual, speaking an indigenous language plus

4. What is your perception on the use of mother tongue along instruction in

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