Diapositiva 1

Implementation of the mother tongue-based approach:
Challenges encountered by Philippine public school
teachers and their coping strategies
 Wakat, Geraldine
 Anas, Jelly June
 Lee, Misu
 Sallidao, Kerry Gene
Estolero, Louise Anne
Nider, Arthur Jr.
Yaccao, Vicente Jr.
4th International Language and Education Conference
Bangkok, 6-8 November, 2013
“We should become trilingual as a country;
Learn English well and connect to the world,
Learn Filipino well and connect to our
country,
Retain our dialect and connect to our
heritage.”
-President Benigno S. Aquino, III
Dep. Ed Order No. 16, s. 2012
Problems
challenges encountered by the Baguio
City public school teachers in the
implementation of the MTB-MLE
the respondents’ coping strategies
assistance the teachers perceive
necessary to help address the challenges
they encounter
Methodology
 Descriptive
Best & Kahn (1993) and Abagi (1996), describe
descriptive survey design as a form of design that presents
existing conditions, practices, beliefs, attitudes or opinions
held, processes going on, and trends for developing
interpretation of meaning; furthermore, Borg & Gall (1989)
notes that descriptive survey research is intended to
produce aspects of education that interest policy makers
and educators (Kikechi, Philip, Kisebe & Ferdinand, 2012).
The questionnaire was administered to
29% of the total population – 72 kindergarten
and grade I teachers in the 16 randomly picked
public schools in Baguio City.
Results
• Top 3 Challenges
 finding indigenous songs
 finding indigenous stories
 finding available books written in the first language
• Least 3 Challenges
 Understanding the first language of the students
 Fluently speaking the first language
 Convincing co-teachers to contextualize concepts and/
or indigenize materials
Results
• Top 3 Strategies
 make my own visual aids using the first language
 discuss using the first language that majority of the
students understand
 discuss using bilingualism
• Least 3 Strategies
 Group my students according to their first language
 Force myself to believe in the MTB-MLE
 Contextualize the ideas alone
Results
• Top 3 Assistance that the teachers need
 seminar on the structure, phonology, and syntax of the
mother tongue
 seminar-workshop on teaching strategies focusing on
MTB-MLE
 visual materials (e.g. Posters, flashcards) written in the first
language
SALAMAT PO..
THANK YOU 