[OPINION] Mother Tongue-based education and our Indigenous Peoples

'As it provides opportunities for Indigenous learners to freely speak and learn the language that reflects their own community, MTB-MLE provides for developed self-identity and increased self-esteem, which are important in the practice of indigineity.'

Along with the commemoration of International Mother Language Day this February and the International Decade of Indigenous Languages from 2022 to 2032, the 240 members of the Philippine House of Representatives approved last February 6, 2023, House Bill 6727,In defending the said House bill, the authors argue for several reasons, such as the schools not being ready to implement mother tongue-based education, which led to their assumed infectivity of the program .

Aside from an infographic of the Philippine Statistics Authority’s 2020 census that reveals that 6.6% of Filipinos are Indigenous Persons according to this definition, there are no other latest figures on the population of Indigenous Peoples, although they are present in the country’s 65 out of 78 provinces. The absence of statistics is proof that Indigenous Peoples’ welfare is not among the aspects looked at when analyzing Philippine population structure.

Second, as it provides opportunities for Indigenous learners to freely speak and learn the language that reflects their own community, MTB-MLE provides for developed self-identity and increased self-esteem, which are important in the practice of indigineity. And fifth, by starting with the mother tongue, the Indigenous learners will have the skill of more effective communication in their community and the skill to also learn other languages, as one of the objectives of MTB-MLE is effective second language acquisition.

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