Critiquing Mother Tongue-Based Language-in-Education Policies: A Focus on the Philippines

• Main Authors: Cruz, Priscilla Angela T, Mahboob, Ahmar
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Language policy; Multilingualism; Mother-tongue-based education; Pedagogy; Language and Literacy Education
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/7; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-7528-5_4
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This chapter is an examination of the possible impact attitudes to language have on the success of multilingual education policies. We argue that if these attitudes are not addressed, mother tongue-based policies in education may inadvertently maintain the hegemony of English rather than empower loc...