Go-Native: Kinaray-a, Mobile Learning Application Using Adaptive Algorithm

Abstract

In Philippines’s education, a school or educational institution integrates the language a child is most familiar with like the mother tongue or native language into the classroom lesson along with the school’s lesson such as English. This is normally the language that the child speaks at home with their family. The Department of Education (DepEd) of the Philippines gets inspiration in its inclusion of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) as a feature of the Enhanced Basic Education Program. Thus, it mandated the use of the language that the students in Grade one to three are familiar with, their first language as medium of instruction to allow them to grasp basic concepts more easily. The Go-Native app has a learning path that could help the child learn Kinaray-a which is the mother tongue of Antique as fast as they could as it offers a child friendly learning environment. Specifically, the application has two learning styles or types: visual and auditory. Additionally, this mobile based application aims to reinforce the teaching of Kinaray-a as it the ability to generate Pre-Test to assess the initial understanding of the pupil and Post-Test to measure the development of learning. In order to meet the aforementioned feature, the application uses the Adaptive Algorithm.