THE IMPACT OF USING MOTHER TONGUE IN A SCHOOL WHERE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE COULD BE IDENTIFIED
These are the related literature and studies utilized by the researcher in this research.
The main reason why humans existed is through language. It unites us all individuals into one from all the different worldviews. It is the bridge that connects us present from our past and to our future. Through language the future would know and appreciate everything that we live for today. It outlines humanity. It is the way humans grasp for things intellectually (Thomas and Israel, 2010).
The key to the heart of the people is language. If we lose the key we lose the people itself. If the key is safely kept, it will open all the riches untold whom not one has ever seen and guessed from the outside (Zhang, 1997) as cited by Thomas and Israel.
Language is one of the most important substance of curriculum. It is both the end and the way to reach the end. It is a tool for …show more content…
Indigenous people are governed and ruled by their own principles and beliefs. They had also different forms of government system and even the dialect they speak is also different. As they reside in rural areas, they use their own dialect and hear not English as schools used before. This is supported Vygotsky, he said,” culture and language are the frameworks through which humans experience, communicate and understand reality (Vygotsky, 1978). In this we could understand that culture and language is interconnected and is used to express themselves and to have a clear knowledge of the truth. In another quote he said,” children are born with fundamental biological repression on their minds. Each culture they have provides what he called us “tools of intellectual adaptation. These tools enables the children to utilize their fundamental mental abilities to adapt to the environment or to the culture as a whole in which they
These are the related literature and studies utilized by the researcher in this research.
The main reason why humans existed is through language. It unites us all individuals into one from all the different worldviews. It is the bridge that connects us present from our past and to our future. Through language the future would know and appreciate everything that we live for today. It outlines humanity. It is the way humans grasp for things intellectually (Thomas and Israel, 2010).
The key to the heart of the people is language. If we lose the key we lose the people itself. If the key is safely kept, it will open all the riches untold whom not one has ever seen and guessed from the outside (Zhang, 1997) as cited by Thomas and Israel.
Language is one of the most important substance of curriculum. It is both the end and the way to reach the end. It is a tool for …show more content…
Indigenous people are governed and ruled by their own principles and beliefs. They had also different forms of government system and even the dialect they speak is also different. As they reside in rural areas, they use their own dialect and hear not English as schools used before. This is supported Vygotsky, he said,” culture and language are the frameworks through which humans experience, communicate and understand reality (Vygotsky, 1978). In this we could understand that culture and language is interconnected and is used to express themselves and to have a clear knowledge of the truth. In another quote he said,” children are born with fundamental biological repression on their minds. Each culture they have provides what he called us “tools of intellectual adaptation. These tools enables the children to utilize their fundamental mental abilities to adapt to the environment or to the culture as a whole in which they