Abstract: The implementation of Language Policy is part of the sector of education around the world to support the mother tongue instruction in the early stage of a child’s education. With the adaptation of mother tongue based- education in the Philippines comes the challenges that will measure the program’s failure or success.
The Mother Tongue Based- Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) is still a crux not only among the education sectors but also to the community. This particular research discussed the challenges encountered by the teachers in teaching mother tongue and its effect to the learning capabilities of students. This also served as an eye-opener and a platform for the program implementer. A relevant study that addressed the current struggles on the problems encountered in the implementation of MTB-MLE and a reference to gather insights for future study. This study particularly expected to present the challenges encountered by teachers in teaching mother tongue based-multilingual education, to determine which among the challenges encountered by Teachers has the greatest impact on the learning capabilities of the students, and present suitable and effective recommendations in addressing the challenges encountered by the teachers and learners.
This research intended the used of interviews and surveys as methods of collecting inputs from the respondents to verify which among the challenges has the greatest effect to students learning. Descriptive Analysis was used to analyse the data.
The findings of this research showed that Mother Tongue books and instructional materials have the highest points in terms of Mother Tongue Based- Multilingual Education challenges. Due to the rush implementation of the program, risk can result to failure. One of the identified risks is the lack of mother tongue teaching materials.
The researchers recommended that the Department of Education officials, school administrators and other implementing bodies must provide the schools with necessary learning materials and provide relevant trainings for teachers to address the needs of teachers in gaining knowledge and the mastery of teaching the subject mother tongue.
Keywords: Challenges, Mother Tongue Based, Multilingual Education, Fort Del Pilar, Challenges in MTB-MLE.
Title: Challenges Encountered by Teachers in Teaching Mother Tongue Based- Multilingual Education at Fort Del Pilar Elementary School
Author: Lopez, Shirley B, Castañeda, Norie C, Castillo, Nympha Rose L, Ikwuka, Victoria A
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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