Bilingual and Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Tupas, Ruanni, Martin, Isabel Pefianco
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: Bilingual education; MTB-MLE; Philippines; Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/27; https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-02258-1_18
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Bilingual education in the Philippines – the use of English in mathematics and science and Filipino, the national language, in all other subjects – is a complex story of postcolonial, neocolonial, nationalist, and ethnolinguistic ideologies and relationships. Thus, the recent law mandating the use o...