Language Attitude toward the Use of Mother Tongue after a Decade of Implementing the MTB-MLE: A Brief Review

Abstract

Reviewing the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) after a decade of its implementation in the Philippines is imperative as it may address concerns and recommendations that are vital in the success of the policy itself. As the policy is a language policy, the language attitude is an area which the present policy review primary delves in. The present paper primarily reviews literatures on the language attitude of the public school teachers towards the use of the mother tongue as the language of instruction (LOI). It also pays attention to the importance and issues of multilingual education which are directly connected to the implementation itself. Finally, it offers future research directions that will provide a more in-depth understanding on the situations that pertain to the implementation.