Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual learners: Implications for mother tongue-based multilingual education in the Philippines

• Main Author: Arnuco, Aireen Barrios
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Native language and education—Philippines; Multilingual education—Philippines Similarity (Language learning); Chavacano language; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/9370
• Institution: De La Salle University

The Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education in the Philippines requires children to learn the mother tongue, in addition to Filipino and English, in elementary school. Acquiring Filipino as a second language (L2) from a first language (L1) background is not a major challenge for most Filipino chi...