By Ricardo Ma. D. Nolasco Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 17, 2012 People in the know are flabbergasted by the headlong rush of the Department of Education to implement mother tongue-based education in ALL public schools in the coming school year. First of all, the new curricula for kindergarten and Grade 1—which integrate the learners’ first …
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By Ricardo Ma. Nolasco, Ph.D. Philippine Daily Inquirer, Posted date: October 16, 2010 MANILA, Philippines—The results of the 2008 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) are finally out. As expected, there are good tidings as well as bad. Among Filipinos between 10 and 64 years old, the ability to read, write and compute …
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Following is a PRESS STATEMENT (October 2, 2010) from 170 + Talaytayan MLE Incorporated. It was published in INQUIRER.net as “Educators push for use of mother tongue in schools” with some alterations (see first two comments). Quite frankly, we prefer the Inquirer’s version on account of the fact that it’s easier to understand it; the …
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[The following is a revision of Dr. Ricardo Nolasco's MLE Primer which was earlier published before DepEd No. 74 s.2009. Ched Arzadon has invited us to submit comments/feedback hereto until August 26, 2010. -- JP] 21 Reasons Why Children Learn Better While Using Their Mother Tongue (August 2010 Version) A Primer on Mother Tongue-based Multilingual …
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[Reprinted from The Philippine Star, August 10, 2010] MANILA, Philippines – The Linguistic Society of the Philippines, (LSP), in collaboration with the English Department of the Ateneo de Manila University, will hold a conference on mother tongue-based multilingual education (MLE) on August 19 and 20 at the Leong Hall, Quezon City campus of Ateneo. The …
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Following is almost an hour’s worth of interview with Salman Khan, the man who gave up a bright and potentially rich future as a hedge fund manager to create the free, not-for-profit Khan Academy which is featured as one of the prominent pages of this blog. To the Dina Ocampos, Aurelio Agcaoilis, Ricardo Nolascos, Ched …
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In conjunction with its 2010 Annual Conference and General Assembly, the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP), in its effort to promote the use of mother tongue languages in accordance with DepEd Order No. 74 s. 2009, is hosting a two-day conference on multilingual education (MLE) to be held at Leong Hall, Ateneo de Manila …
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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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