TOPIC: MOTHER TONGUE – BASED MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION THESIS STATEMENT With all the students having a difficulty in coping with their lessons‚ Mother tongue-based multilingual education may be helpful or not in solving this problem. OUTLINE I. Introduction II. Purpose of Mother Tongue-based Education A. Reasons why the Mother Tongue should be used in primary schools B. Points and ideas about Mother Tongue-based Education III. Target learners of Mother Tongue-based Education IV. Effects of Mother Tongue-based
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sense of futility. Jing-mei believes that she is simply not “fated” to be a prodigy‚ that ultimately there resides within her an unchangeable element of mediocrity. When she tells her reflection in the mirror one night that she will not allow her mother to change her‚ that she will not try to be what she is not‚ she asserts her will in a strong but negative manner. At that moment‚ she recalls‚ she saw the “prodigy side” of herself in the anger and determination that were in her face. This comment
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American writer Amy Tan (1952- ) shows connections between women within a family throughout her novels The Bonesetter’s Daughter‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ and The Hundred Secret Senses. Tan illustrates the kind of relationship the women share‚ how their opinions on life differ‚ and how they resolve their differences. Ms. Tan uses her own experiences with life and her family to inspire her fictional stories. In Amy Tan’s novel The Bonesetter’s Daughter‚ the main female characters are Ruth and Lu Ling
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Are we losing our Mother-Tongue? It is‚ and it’s getting worse. In an increasingly urbanised India‚ mother-tongues are under siege and facing a sustained attack from the three Ms of migration‚ market and mixed marriages. The mother tongue is the true vehicle of the mother wit. Another medium of speech may bring with it a current of new ideas. But the mother tongue is one in which a man is born. It is through the vernacular that the new conceptions of the mind should press their way to birth in
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Salient Features on Mother Tongue Based- Multi Lingual Education Language Development A strong educational foundation in the first language Successful bridging to one or more additional languages Enabling the use of both/ all languages for life- long learning Cognitive Development Is based in the child’s own known environment and bridges to the wider world. “Known to unknown” The buildup of higher order thinking skills that will: Transfer to the other languages once Filipino or English has
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themes such as responsibility‚ the pressure to succeed‚ and the loss of innocence. A theme that is especially prevalent in Amy Tan’s short story‚ “Two Kinds‚” is identity. There is a discernable conflict between who the narrator wants to be and who her outside influences want her to be. Arguably‚ no greater pressure can come from that of one’s parents. In “Two Kinds‚” the mother is the primary source of the narrator’s‚ or the daughter’s‚ identity crisis. To develop the theme of identity‚ the author
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Issues on Mother Tongue as a medium of Instruction These changes in curricular content and focus emanate from the bill’s intention to do away with the bilingual policy and to affirm mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE). The bill provides that for kindergarten and from Grades 1-3‚ the regional or native language of the learners shall be used for instruction‚ teaching materials and testing. From Grades 4-6‚ there shall be a language transition plan so that Filipino and English are
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During Rabbi Amy Eilberg’s talking workshop‚ we explored experiences of estrangement‚ conflict‚ and enmity in our own interpersonal relationships‚ workplaces‚ communities. The thing I found the most interesting to me was the quality of being a peace seeker. Knowing that she helps synagogues and Jewish organizations place the pursuit of peace in interpersonal relationships at the center of their communal mission‚ she is the ultimate peace seeker. Qualities of a peace seeker are having kindness‚
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Raymond Chandler‚ a fiction writer‚ once said‚ "The most durable thing in writing is style." True‚ the style is often defined as one of the most important elements in writing. In Amy Tan’s novel‚ "The Joy Luck Club"‚ the style significantly contributes to the development of both the tone and the theme of the influences that a mother can have on her daughter. The author effectively portrays the somber tone and the theme by using a concise style of diction‚ images‚ details‚ language‚ sentence structure‚ point
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new ones is a very stressful undertaking. Amy Tan is a daughter of a Chinese immigrant mother‚ who believes in the American dream. Her mother went through some difficult
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