No More Mother Tongue for Kids?

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[Ij_ld]

Imo. They should keep the mother tongue subject as a different and separate language sub up until 3rd grade. But subjects like mathematics and science should be taught in english. As it's how it's being taught in the later stages of education.
I myself found it hard to learn MATH and science when it was being taught in mother tongue. But i enjoyed the subject mother tongue as it focused more on the language itself.

[FebruaryHasDays]

DepEd should create an app called Pinoy Duolingo where you can learn the languages of the Philippines anytime and anywhere

[Ren_OneOkRockSBfan]

When I was young, we used tagalog for “tagalog subjects” like Filipino, Araling Panlipunan, Sibika at Kultura, among others while English for subjects like Science, Math, etc. Even though at home, we only used Ilocano, I didn’t have any problem learning Filipino and English.

[Ij_ld]

They're apparently doing the opposite of what I originally thought. They still want mother tongue to be used in other subjects lol. What even is the point? Mother tongue as a separate subject is what teaches us about our regional culture. There's no use in using mother tongue in describing mathematic and scientific terms.
It should stay as a separate language sub as it is today.

[Scratchblade]

People should get to choose what languauge/dialect would they learn.

[sineskwela_]

Iam glad to even learn it before it got discontinued

[baiallianacosain]

As a teacher for almost 9 years I used Filipino/Tagalog as language I used in teaching because thats the only language that my pupils can easily to understand. We have a diverse learners from our school, we have maranao, bisaya, tausog and maguindanaon

[MoonBear-j]

Im currently studying baybayin and I will teach it to my fellow filipinos to preserve our culture.❤

[princezyrusnatividad]

Regional languages says a lot about the characteristics from different places in the philippines and it's removal will probably be sad

[aaeve]

I only had Mother tongue from first grade to second grade, English was used for Math, English, Science, TLE, EmpTech, and ValEd. Tagalog was used for Filipino, Aral-Pan, Kultura, and Economics. Other than school everyone used our mother tongue, even in school during non "teaching" times

[Tuskthesmooth]

In exchange for a higher rate of learning, Tradition and Culture have to be sacrificed. Personally, i think it should be just optional, so students can focus much more on important subjects.

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[Castro]

I am a Filipino and I am an English speaker but I still don't know how to speak my mother tongue. The learning of the language should be compulsory for each student even if there are people new to the country. Filipino Literacy should be put on to their overall grades. This is to preserve the culture for our country and the people as our identity.

- Castro 105

[Anniegrazie]

I usually come across some vids with your voice, i thought it was AI voice (in a good way) then i was shocked to see you speaking in this one, and realized it was an actual speaking voice. Kudos!

[adambasinger]

I'm a canadian esl teacher in training and one of the classes I'm doing is communication differences; basically the various conditions that mess with how people are able to speak, read, write listen etc. And for a long time the accepted idea was that if the student is in an English speaking country (like Canada or the US) and their parents speak another language (usually new immigrants), to stop speaking and teaching the kid that other language since they're obviously struggling with the one language that second one is going to be that much harder.

but recently a study finished on a bunch of families who's kids had a variety of these conditions, with half of them following the conventional advice and half refusing, and so taught the kids the second language.

And guess what, when we review the kids after many years, the ones who learned a second language weren't any further behind in english competancy compared to the kids who "only focused on english".

So yeah, learning multiple languages is tricky, but kids are hardwired for it, even in cases where they are clinically struggling with it, multilingualism is just the right call for the obvious reasons that everyone in this comment section points out, preservation of culture and connection to the past.

There's no cost to it as far as the kids education so why not keep paying it?

[TonPot-vw]

basic education is not only to preserve the culture and tradition but also to prepare the students on what is the modern language and have a quick understanding of how things work. mothe tongue ca be used as a translation if the student can't comprehend byt should not be transcribed in books and teaching methods. this is the reason why we alao fail in the global ranking. kasi though other countried use mother toungue (history, culture and gmrc) when it comes to math science, they use majority ofvthe time in english.

[riverrunsfree]

Better put it in higher education (College). . Mas maayos natin ang tamang paggamit ng mga regional languages/dialects pag may research yan.

Let's take Kankanaey, for example, dahil may mga terms sa tagalog at English na wala sa Kankanaey or hindi na ginagamit sa modern conversation, the DepEd (or at least those who develop the curriculum) borrow from Iloko and other dialects. Meaning, a lot of the dialects have no written or established dictionaries that can be a reference. This way, we can actually appreciate the etymology of words and how our languages evolved. We can even discover if tribes are actually related to each other through their language/dialects. .

After we have enough researches and established grammatical rules (idk the exact term), then we can revisit teacheing it in high school or elem.

[melsmelberry]

In my school, they stopped using mother tongue in elementary.

[artmorales]

They can be used for bridging, not necessarily as a subject, dahil ginagamit naman na araw araw ung mga dialect nila. kasi aminin man natin o hindi mas magaling ang mga bata noong BEC pa ang curriculum, noong nag K-12 wala na kahit basic English or basic sentence lang di pa magawa/alam/maintindihan ng mga bata ngayon. Hindi ako matalino pero kahit papaano may alam naman ako kaunti. Mas maganda mga libro noon. Ngayon ilang taon na ang k-12 pero wala pang matinong libro, nag k-12 na then simplify nila tapos ngayon MATATAG curriculum na. Dapat sa grade 1 tutok lang sila sa mga 4 major subjects at pabasa.

[maryannmendoza]

it was been english and tagalog in school back in the 80's. We use our mother tongue during break/recess, before and after class and at home

Adding "mother tongue" as another subject is not necessary

[beatricellana]

As a student, our school have a speak English policy and it works well, the only problem is that my classmates could barely speak or understand Tagalog at this point, and as a cherry on top we are in high school already po, literal teens. Alam ko naman po na mahalagang matuto tayo ng Ingles kaso lang po, sa aking opinyon ay hindi po maganda ang plano na yan dahil maraming istudyante ang hinda na po halos makapag tagalog, at lalo pong hindi masasanay ang mga istudyante sa sarili nating wika.