Reaction Essay

Teaching and Learning Using Multilingual System

Ma'am Lynnie said something about using the System of Multilingual as means of teaching here in our country. I was intrigued because using English as teaching makes some advantages and disadvantages of Multilingual. I appreciate more about what will it bring good by using it. Multilingual could be a key to our education and economies improvement.

Multilingual schools could be great can have high rank in their performance of producing outstanding students. I read an article in the internet (http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/past-issues/volume6/ej24/ej24r11/) that students could have different out view on what their performance will be. "Students from other language backgrounds often feel ambivalent about multilingualism, at times experiencing intense discomfort when conversations and activities happen which they cannot participate in or comprehend" said by Tara Goldsteinis an anti-discriminatory teacher educator and critical ethnographer striving to promote inclusive schooling practices. It could cause some discomfort .

Nowadays, many students are very poor in the English. It easier to teach if we have a single teaching language, that is English. But using our Filipino language is also applicable. There are words you can't explain in English easily.

Language use and choice are complicated issuesinvolving a certain amount of discomfort as a prerequisite for finding equitable alternatives to racist and exclusionary schooling practices.Despite the challenges inherent in anti-discriminatory initiatives,Teaching and Learning in Multilingual Schools leaves advocates of inclusive pedagogy invigorated with compelling evidence that education for social justice is not only worthwhile but attainable.