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The term mother tongue was first used by Catholic monks. Ivan Illich
Mother Tongue Base Education
Multilingual Education
Purpose of MTB-BLE:
bridge to the wider world
promotes learners integration into the national society
12 mother-tongue languages
Tagalog
Kapampangan
Pangasinense
Iloko
Bikol
Cebuano
Studies have shown that using the language used at home (mother
tongue) inside the classroom during the learners early years of
schooling produces better and faster learners who can easily adapt
to learn a second (Filipino) and third (English) language.