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This document contains a midterm exam on the topic of using a student's mother tongue in education. The first section contains 15 true/false questions about concepts related to language and using mother tongue in teaching. The second section asks the test taker to provide examples of classroom activities that demonstrate benefits of using mother tongue for language, cognitive, academic, and socio-cultural development. The third section contains 3 essay questions asking the test taker to argue whether using mother tongue helps students understand and learn, and whether it makes learning a second language or higher-order thinking skills more difficult.

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ED MTB Midterm Exam

This document contains a midterm exam on the topic of using a student's mother tongue in education. The first section contains 15 true/false questions about concepts related to language and using mother tongue in teaching. The second section asks the test taker to provide examples of classroom activities that demonstrate benefits of using mother tongue for language, cognitive, academic, and socio-cultural development. The third section contains 3 essay questions asking the test taker to argue whether using mother tongue helps students understand and learn, and whether it makes learning a second language or higher-order thinking skills more difficult.

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ED MTB

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

True or False. (20 points). Choose True if the statement is true, and False if the statement is false.

_________ 1. Teachers in K to Grade 3 should learn the mother tongue of the learners where they are
teaching.
_________ 2. There is a need for a working orthography in teaching the mother tongue on K to grade 3.
_________ 3. The mother tongue is a subject to be taught in Grade 1 to Grade 3.
_________ 4. The mother tongue is the same as the first language or L1.
_________ 5. In high school, when the students cannot express themselves in English, they can use the
mother tongue to explain.
_________ 6. Other countries do not make use of the mother tongue in teaching younger children or
earlier grades.
_________ 7. Language is a code used by a speech community in negotiating meaning.
_________ 8. Form, content, a language, comprise a language.
_________ 9. The phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that has meaning.
_________ 10. Pragmatics investigates the use of language to negotiate meaning and accomplish tasks.
_________ 11. The morpheme is the smallest unit of word that has meaning.
_________ 12. The phonological system of a language is composed of segmental and suprasegmental
phonemes.
_________ 13. The language a child was raised with at home is his mother tongue.
_________ 14. The syntactic system of a language looks at the rules governing word formation and their
arrangement within a sentence and among the string of sentences.
_________ 15. The study the sounds of a language also means to study the structure of the language.

II. Fill-Up the Table (10 pts).


Provide 2 examples of classroom activities as evidences for the benefits of using mother tongue per area
of development.

Benefit in an Area of Development Example of Classroom Activity that Uses Mother


Tongue in Teaching and Learning
Language Development

Cognitive Development

Academic Development

Socio-Cultural Development
III. Essay: (15 points)
1. Will early years school children understand better if we teach them using their mother tongue?
Why or why not?
2. Will learning with the use of mother tongue makes it difficult for children to learn a second
language? Why or why not?
3. Will it be difficult for mother tongue learners to learn higher order thinking skills in upper
elementary grades or even in high school? Why or why not?

Prepared By:
Maria Blesila D. Macapagal
Instructor

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