K-12

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/05/16/942653/k-12-all-use-mother-tongue-now-law
Aquino signed Republic Act 10533 or the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013
The law also mandates the use of the mother tongue as the medium of instruction from
kindergarten to third grade before English is introduced.
The government said it was building tens of thousands of new classrooms, hiring nearly 18,000
teachers, and printing tens of millions of textbooks this year to implement the new education
program nationwide.
Twenty-nine percent of the workforce is jobless or underemployed, according to the latest
government data.
Use of Mother Tongue
Recto cited latest global studies which confirmed that learning through the use of the mother
tongue results in quicker comprehension.
The language of instruction will then gradually shift to English from grades four to six in primary
school.
Subjects will be taught in English throughout high school, as the country considers English
proficiency by its workforce as a competitive advantage in employment.
MTB-MLE
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/260658/news/specialreports/k-to12-lessons-to-be-taught-in-
mother-tongue-to-help-students-learn-better-and-stay-in-school
The Mother Tongue-based Multi-lingual education (MTB-MLE) shall be applied from
kindergarten to Grade 3 in both public and private schools. It shall be part of the new
curriculum for incoming Grade 1 pupils.
The 12 languages as mediums of instruction are: Tagalog, Kapampangan, Pangasinense,
Iloko, Bikol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Tausug, Maguindanaoan, Maranao, and
Chabacano.

DepEd Undersecretary Yolanda Quijano explains that the MTB-MLE will help students
understand their lessons better, at the same time infuse a sense of nationalism that she adds
is still lacking among the youth.

Eto talaga ay para naman ma-aware ang bata kung saan siya galing, ang roots niya,
ang culture niya, ang sarili niyang kwento at songs, ang pagka-Pilipino niya, Quijano says.
Studies show that students learn better when taught in their native language than in a foreign
tongue.
Diane Dekker and Walter Stephen of the Summer Institute Linguistic International in 2007
studied 240 elementary students in Lubuagan, Kalinga to gauge whether they learn better
when taught in their native language or in English.

They found out that majority of the top 40 students performed better after being taught in
their first language 32 of the top students in Grade 1, 30 in Grade 2, and 32 in Grade 3.
Meanwhile, the bulk of the bottom 40 students performed relatively poorly when taught in a
foreign language 36 students in Grade 1, 40 in Grade 2, and 31 in Grade 3.
Addressing the dropout rate
According to a 2000 United Nations report, the dropout rate in the Philippines at the public
school elementary level has remained high in a span of five decades since the 1960s 28 to
34 percent of that student population fail to reach Grade 6 level.
multi-language education boosted by the universal kindergarten also under the K to12
program shall prepare these students to learn better in school so they wouldnt have to
drop out of their classes
(http://www.rappler.com/nation/33619-mother-tongue-languages-k12)
"The use of the same language spoken at home, in the early grades, helps improve the
pupils language and cognitive development in addition to strengthening their socio-cultural
awareness," Education Secretary Armin Luistro said in a statement.

K-12 INFOGRAPHIC (http://www.rappler.com/nation/30207-infographic-ten-things-k12)

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