Last month, a group of educators, scholars and other prominent individuals filed a petition in the Supreme Court questioning the policies of the government which mandate the use of English as medium ...
LAST year, around New Year’s Day, I drew up a language and linguistics agenda for the Philippines for 2025. I thought of making it a tradition in my column, and so I write one for this year again. But ...
FOLLOWING the release of the cross-country study on transitions in language-of-instruction policies which included a ...
Asians are often puzzled by Asian-Americans. It's as if the Asian, seeing an Asian-American, says to himself: "You look like me but you don't talk like me and you certainly don't think like me." As ...
Editor’s Note: Emil Guillermo is a journalist and author. He writes for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and at www.amok.com. (CNN) – To the average American, the name Wilma Lamug ...
In our pursuit to develop and promote the use of a ‘national language,’ we should ask ourselves if we are simply trying hard to create a forced Filipino identity by speaking a forged language In ...
In October 2024, the Philippine government, in its management of a linguistically rich and culturally diverse population, decided to make the then-existing Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education ...
Leading the efforts to support and increase the reach of communication globally and locally, Microsoft Translator announces the addition of Filipino together with five other Austronesian languages, ...