Mother Tongue program hampers English, reading progress – teacherhome/Campus Press/Mother Tongue program hampers English, reading progress – teacherBAGUIO CITY: Because of the “Mother Tongue” program, most Grade 4 pupils here could not understand simple English phrases such as, “You put your things on the table,” and – for lack of English vocabulary – would speak in the vernacular and stare blankly the moment they hear lectures in straight English, making translations necessary, according to a research. It is also the grade level in which the Mother Tongue program stops. She added that many of the respondents of Balalao failed the Phil-IRI and it appeared that the Mother Tongue program was one of the culprits. New languageThe family od Ralph Altiyen, who resides in the Ifugao-dominated Barangay Asin Road, is experiencing the inconveniences of the precipitate implementation of the Mother Tongue program. She asked how that could be for Baguio City when the mother tongue is the dialect of the lowlands.

Source: Manila Times December 19, 2018 18:11 UTC