In the current (now old) General Education Curriculum for all college students, there are Filipino and English language subjects. In the new General Education Curriculum (GEC), there is no subject ...

What do the terms "carnap," "comfort room" and "mani-pedi" have in common? Not much save that they're examples of what's called Filipino English. And that they are among the many new additions to the ...

THIS is a reaction to the primer on MTB-MLE (“Never again: A nation of ‘5th graders’”) written by Ricardo Ma. Duran Nolasco, Ph.D., a faculty member of the Department of Linguistics at the University ...

MANILA, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Filipino English language teachers Cresencia Mapalad and others are hopeful that they could land teaching jobs in China. Mapalad told Xinhua in an interview that she got ...

Isn’t it ironic that we celebrate National Language Week every August of the year, not knowing that a number of pundits on the Internet say that Filipino is a dying language? Could it be true? Further ...

Take a look at some of the main Filipino language policies currently in place that aid government institutions to uphold and propagate the national language MANILA, Philippines – The 1987 Constitution ...

MANILA, Philippines — Neophyte Senator Robin Padilla on Monday expressed dismay over Filipinos’ preference for the English language, even in government documents. It is one of the reasons he is ...

MANILA, Philippines — The use of Filipino language in government offices, especially when disseminating information, got another push from Senator Raffy Tulfo on Monday. At the hearing of the Senate ...

In one of my favorite scenes in last year’s groundbreaking Filipino movie Heneral Luna, the ill-tempered general was at the train station together with his two lieutenants, about to commandeer a train ...