[gigya src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zXNNUMg93Sc?&fs" flashvars="&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="345"] Today, Lino Gerona emailed something about a brewing issue which is actually a non-issue if only DepEd has the common sense to address it. Well, read about it: Dr. Esdicul of DepEd has put forward a dangerous, counter-productive and counter-revolutionary proposal: Mother tongue should be used only as a …
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[The following is an excerpt from the book, Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe edited by Witold Tulasiewicz & Anthony Adams. It is being reprinted here to give us an idea how other countries are managing their MLE programs. Note the similar circumstances under which the national language/languages are stipulated in the Spanish …
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By Bonifacio F. Comandante, Jr. (Presented at the 1st MLE Conference, “Reclaiming the Right to Learn in One’s Own Language,” Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro City, Feb 18-20, 2010.) ABSTRACT: Miguel Lopez de Legaspi first experienced the linguistic diversity of the Philippine Archipelago on 1565. In the succeeding years, Catholic missionaries were heaping praises on …
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5 advocacy guides to improve pre-service teacher education:
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Multilingual Education for All in Asia and the Pacific: Policies, Practices and Processes. 4th International Conference on Language and Education. Nov. 6-8, 2013, Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Correspondence related to the conference may be addressed to: Ms. Panyaphat Piam-o-pad, International Conference Secretariat Coordinator (mleconf2013@gmail.com) or Ms. Kyungah Kristy Bang, MLE Secretariat Coordinator (k.bang@unesco.org).
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