Prospects for Translingual Pedagogy in MTB-MLE

• Main Authors: Evangelista-Garcia, Jessica Lace G, Estipona, Michael Ian Benedict P, Gonzales, Dan Henry F
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: English as mother tongue; Philippine languages; Translingual pedagogy; Arts and Humanities; Education; English Language and Literature; Language and Literacy Education; Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/222; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8589-0_2
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This chapter considers the prospects of employing translingual pedagogy as a more appropriate approach in carrying out Mother Tongue Based-Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) in the Philippines. MTB-MLE was institutionalized in 2009 and enacted into a law in 2013 with the purpose of making education mo...