On July 10, 2012, I got the following email from Lino Gerona, a.k.a., Michael Faelnar: Tue, July 10, 2012 Re: MTB MLE Workshop for 3rd & 4th quarters for Grade 1. From: Lino Gerona <geronalino@ymail.com> To: Aurelio Agcaoili <aurelioagcaoili@gmail.com>; Jose Padre <win1tree@yahoo.com>; Gloria Baguingan <gloriabaguingan@yahoo.com.ph>; Pearl Pearl <terraces@walla.com>; Santiago Villafania <svillafania@gmail.com>; Fred Cabuang <proffredlsu@gmail.com>; Ernest …
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Optimising Learning, Education and Publishing in Africa: The Language Factor
This publication presents the results of comprehensive research that assesses the experiences of mother-tongue and bilingual education programmes in 25 sub-Saharan African countries in recent years.1 Its overall conclusion is encapsulated in the statement Language is not everything in education, but without language, everything is nothing in education (Wolff, Chapter 1). The need for the …
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2nd Philippine Conference-Workshop on Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education
CALL FOR PAPERS Guidelines for the submission of abstracts: An author is limited to one individual abstract and one joint abstract; The first page of the submission should contain the name of the author /authors, affiliations, e-mail address; postal address and the designated topic of the parallel sessions; The second page should contain the abstract …
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Battle to preserve Asian languages in schools
Before the landmark Deped Order #74 s. 2009 came into being, we’ve had to worry about our non-Tagalog children entering school that under the old bilingual system (English and Filipino only as mediums of instruction), their mother tongues “don’t have a value if they don’t have a value in curriculum”. Well, it turns out some …
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Lino Gerona: Issues that don't escape his attention
Lino Gerona, that ubiquitous and indefatigable MLE advocate, sends the following: Worth quoting from an article: The veteran word-watcher and Times columnist Philip Howard agrees that languages are in the hands of people, not politicians. “Language is the only absolutely true democracy. It’s not what professors of linguistics or academics or journalists say, but what …
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Philippines: Multilingual Education (MLE) Mapping Data
[gigya src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iJAatN4PMBA?&fs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="288"] Developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Bangkok Office, the Multilingual Education (MLE) Mapping Data includes classroom language practises in pre-primary (PP) and primary/elementary (PR) levels in the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. The last item, Materials in classroom, for each organization/institution is an estimate of …
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Little books for early readers
On May 17, 2011, Ms. Mailin Locsin (second from left in photo at left), Head of School of Beacon Academy in Biñan, Laguna, posted this comment: Beacon Academy is a secondary school in Biñan, Laguna. As part of a community and service project, we initiated the creation of early readers by our students. These little …
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Literacy as a community value
It is difficult to understand that in this day and age, there are those who still cannot find enough motivation to learn to read with an adequate level of comprehension — even on their own, what with the many resources out there that allow one to teach oneself how to read. They know that varying …
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UNESCO: Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education
5 advocacy guides to improve pre-service teacher education:
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Ending the Hidden Exclusion
MLE Conference
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).MTB-MLE Network
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