Relationship of the Use of Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education to the English Learning Competencies of Grade Four Pupils

Abstract

This study was conducted to find the relationship of the Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) to the acquisition of the English learning competencies of the Grade 4 pupils of Alaminos City Division for the school year 2017-2018. Specifically, this study was conducted to answer the following problems on the personal profile of the teachers and pupils, the level of acquisition of the English learning competencies of the Grade 4 pupils as perceived by the teachers across the following domains: listening comprehension, oral language, vocabulary development, reading comprehension, oral reading fluency, study strategy, grammar, writing composition and attitude and the relationship between the level of acquisition of English learning competencies of Grade 4 pupils and profile variables.