The results of the most recent international report on the state of Philippine education are dismal: Filipino students cannot comprehend what they read, even when they spend long hours in school. Moreover, remote learning has not improved the situation for the underprivileged: Students from educated families are best served by online schooling, but students from less-educated families are dropping out. In recent years, there has been some work to help students score better on reading comprehension, which is often assessed with English-language texts. In Mother Tongue Language Instruction, non-native speakers learn English as a foreign language while studying other school subjects in the language that shaped their childhood. The system, adopted throughout the world, aims to help students understand English as a language so that they are not forced to translate a text while having to discover the text's meaning simultaneously. While it has been used for a long while in the country, it is still not leading to better scores. In some countries, reading comprehension is taught using topics that students like, through books that students choose, which supposedly encourages them to read on their own later. Robert Pondiscio of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute says otherwise: Recent research… Read full this story
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