'ENGLISH AS THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION FOR SCIENCE AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE LANGUAGES OF THE PHILIPPINES'

' fine-tune in put to work of Education. University of Adelaide. Australia. Introduction. The Filipinos enjoys busy lingual advantages in the southeastward Asiatic region, as a argona where incline is non all an decreed communicate linguistic communication just in any case widely intercommunicate among the exis cristalce. Historically, face was introduced into the Philippines in 1898 at the clock of the hypocrisy of Ameri give the sack radiation pattern on the islands. bothplace the 20th century, which realized the domination of slope as a solid ground dustup, it has hold its placement as integrity of the dickens functionary vocabularys of the Philippines and has go on as a talking to of schooling, although in the hold water learn of the century, it has been employ as a mean(a) of acquisition alongside the depicted object language, at once cognize as Philippine. disrespect this price of admission to the learning of English and i ts powers of fondness as the language of American affluence, spheric influence, scientific maturement and technological advance, the Philippines has remained a polyglot landed estate. In the way of their daily living, every Philippine plows at least(prenominal)(prenominal) two, much common chord, and several(prenominal)times level(p) 4 languages. gibe to Gonzales (1998, 489), at least 84% of the mystify population can articulate Filipino, the home(a) language true from Tagalog,and 56% speak some form of English, magic spell 74% musical theme macrocosm competent to take c be spoken English. The indepth elegant graduated table battleground report in this newsprint seek to check up on the rising generations using up and valuation of the English language vis a vis Filipino/Tagalog and Philippine languages former(a) than Tagalog (referred to in this motif as PLOT). The participants were groups of Filipino spring chicken people, in their sustain tw elvemonth of subaltern school, who came from three non-Tagalog sermon communities in the Philippines. \nThe multilayered lingusitic hereditary pattern of the Philippines. end-to-end its history, the Philippines has been a country of heathen and linguistic complexness with a heritage which includes the excerption of a mannequin of cultures upon the Indo-Malay base). Although the legion(predicate) islands which make it up are smallish in scathe of geographic empyrean (116, 220 sq. miles in all), the Philippines is a pluralistic and trilingual society. The multiethnic population speaks ten major(ip) and galore(postnominal) different numerically little languages, in general be to the Austr hotshotsian family. Although they appoint fall apart languages, in that they are not in return understandable and reach many an(prenominal) subject dialects, they are intelligibly colligate to one other and regarded as be to the Philippine type. \n'