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Nicholas Thomas, Country Director of the British Council Philippines, says that developing a wider knowledge of the English language is one of the British Council’s founding purposes. “Part of our work is to share best practice in the teaching and learning of English with partner countries all over the world. English has a distinctive place ...
Aug 7, 2014 · This is reflected in Article IX, Section 2 of the 1943 Constitution, which removed English and Spanish as official languages and stated: “The government shall take steps toward the development...
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Filipino, the case would just be the same; the difference being that the roles of English and Filipino are merely reversed. It goes without saying then that favoring Tagalog-based Filipino disadvantages those whose mother tongue is a non-Tagalog Philippine language. Even though putting a premium on Filipino seems patriotic or even counter-
official languages of the country, the other of which is Filipino. This status of English in the Philippines as a secondary language corresponds to the Outer Circle classi-fication in Kachru’s Circles of English model (Schneider, 2011). It was explained that most countries in the Outer Circle, like the Philippines, were former English
Findings indicate language modifications resulting in Taglish, some loss of proficiency in Filipino, and a lack of purity in the Filipino and English languages. Keywords: Code-switching, Filipino language, Globish, multilingual setting, mutual code, Tagalog, Taglish.
Aug 12, 2019 · English and Spanish don’t associate with certain ethnolinguistic groups in our country, thus it removes the baggage of some ethnolinguistic group being alienated by the selection of Tagalog as...
Today, English is constitutionally named as one of the Philippines’ official languages, and it continues to be an integral part of local life and culture. English is the language of business, science, technology, government, education, and international communication. It is present in the country’s print and broadcast media, and in its ...
