Includes both positive versus negative, and

Factors Affecting internal versus external factors. Falling in love is a

Success of fantastic motivating force, as it hatred. Helping a
child find his own reason to learn a language is far
Multilingualism more effective than forcing a language on him.

Key Factors Influencing Successful Strategy and Consistency

Multilingualism Means making a conscious decision to
approach language development in a certain way
 Aptitude
and consistency is each person’s (including
 Timing
parents’) ability to stay true to agreed upon
 Motivation
strategy. There are at least seven thoroughly
 Strategy research strategies, including the one-person-one-
 Consistency language approach. No strategy is more efficient
 Opportunity than another, though it has been shown that it is
 The Linguistic Relationship between easier to be consistent with OPOL, for example,
Languages than with using “time” (dinner time, weekends,
 Siblings etc) as guiding strategy.
 Gender

Opportunity
Aptitude
Is the daily use of the language(s) in
Each person is born with a certain aptitude meaningful situations. The amount of time an
for different life skills. People with a high aptitude individual can spend actually using the target
for foreign languages learn languages easily; language(s) is the single factor which separate
people with low aptitude do so with difficulty. adult and child bilingual success. Harley (1986)
You cannot influence how much aptitude a person actually showed that adults are superior to
has, but you can make the most of what exists. It children when learning a foreign language if and
is estimated that aptitude for foreign languages is when they dedicate the same amount of time to
on par with other talents, with roughly 10% of the the task.
population enjoying its benefits.

The Linguistic Relationship between

Timing Languages
The windows of opportunity are times Does the native language share roots with
when certain skills can best be learned. There are the second language? If so, the second language is
three windows of opportunity for foreign language easier to learn due to the similarity of grammar,
acquisition. The first and “easiest” is from birth to vocabulary and sound systems.
nine-months. The second is between four and
eight years old due to children’s lower inhibition
levels. The third is from nine-years and onwards
as the brain reaches its full size (though not in
Siblings
terms of neuroconnections). Can have a positive as well as negative
effect. In the positive, siblings learn a great deal
from one another as they have a greater number of
Motivation verbal exchanges and conversations in a day.
However, in the negative case, one child may
dominate the language exchange and stunt the teaches as well. This issue could have been
other’s development. addressed prior if there was ample time prior.

Gender It is Expensive and we can’t afford it

Sexist as it may sound at first, we now yet
have the technology to see how boys and girls Knowing the nature of budgetary
approach language from different parts of the allocations, the government failed to consider the
brain and this is influential in both first, second wealth capability of this developing country.
the subsequent languages.

It never takes into consideration

Migration-Related Concerns
For instance, I was suddenly transferred to
Criticisms against MTB- work in Mindanao in the Tausug-speaking
community, my wife wanted to be with me as well
MLE as my kids. My wife is a grade three teacher ever
since. Will she get a job as a third grade teacher
when she can’t speak the language used in the
classroom? What about my kids? My kids being
It Jeopardizes the “Minor” Language
English speakers in the house should deal with the
Knowing that only the major languages Tausug-speaking class? There must be a way to
will be used, what will happen now to the take these issues into account.
speakers of the so called “minority” language?
What language will these learners use in the
classrooms? Take for instance a student who MTB-MLE is the reason that Science is
speaks “Samal” the language of the Mindanao
taught in the Later Years
Area, these learners may not seem familiar with
the Tausug language. Will the teachers speak the For some advocates of science, the sad
language in the class? This problem will be very reality that it will be offered later than expected in
problematic in the sense that, there will really be the life of the young, is a daunting experiences.
an emphasis on the notion that some languages are MTB-MLE is supposed to be the reason behind. If
major and some minor. The pride aspect of the use the English language could have been the medium
of the language might be directly or indirectly be of instruction, Science would have been part of
affected. the early graders curriculum. What is negative
implications will there be? One factor may seem
obvious that the Science students love to do earlier
It Lacks Certain Time Frame for in life was not taken into big consideration in
school. This would give a psychological effect
Deliberation
later on.
By the look of the situation, one can’t
neglect the fact that politics still is the name of the
game. To make a great deal of platform, the
current government leaders are in haste in the
implementation. Without ample time for the study
and the possible ill effects of the program, they
pushed through. This is manifested in the current
state of affairs, a public school in Makati, until
now is still waiting for the materials for the