ARENAS, JEAN CAMILLE (CREATIVE ANALYSIS)

Creative synthesis (arenas_bse31)

E-BSEE318 - LANGUAGE PROGRAMS AND POLICIES IN MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY

• Philippines - unified by language

• adopted European language governmentality

components of language policy (bernard spolky)

Language Beliefs

• rejected Spanish; elevated Tagalog

• ideal citizen - fluent in English and Tagalog

Language Practices

• Mother Tongue - more effective as a language and expression than English

What people actually do

What people think should be done

• Filipino - national language; Tagalog-Pilipino-Filipino

Language Management

• English - economic gain; language of schools

The actual practice

• achievement of competence in national level in both English and Filipino

Constitution of Biak-Na-Bato

Tagalog - official language

use of languages in Philippines - not compulsory

1899 Malolos Constitution

• mandated the indigenous language

established a system of schools

Education Act. of 1902

Bilingual Education Policy; subjects; specific language of instruction

DECS Order No. 52

• Mother tongue - unequal with Filipino and English

increase citizen's proficiency;Institutionalizing MTB-MLE

DepEd Order No. 74, s. 2009

transitions from MT (pri. level) to English and Filipino (sec. level)

Republic Act No. 10533