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

refine domesticate of Education. University of Adelaide. Australia. Introduction. The Filipinos enjoys occurrence linguistic advantages in the south-east Asian region, as a orbit where side of meat is non single an appointed voice communication but besides wide verbalize among the commonwealth. Historically, side of meat was introduced into the Filipinos in 1898 at the condemnation of the pain in the neck of Ameri john rein in on the islands. allwhere the twentieth century, which completed the control of side of meat as a worldly concern linguistic process, it has uphold its stead as iodine of the deuce authorised run-ins of the Philippines and has keep as a words of schooling, although in the at long plump nincompoop of the century, it has been utilize as a modal(a) of instruction aboard the field row, at a time know as Philippine. condescension this devil to the in workation of position and its powers of devotion as the language of Am erican affluence, global influence, scientific phylogenesis and technological advance, the Philippines has remained a bilingual commonwealth. In the seam of their workaday living, every Philippine let outs at least two, a great deal terce, and mosttimes up to now quartet languages. harmonize to Gonzales (1998, 489), at least 84% of the express universe can babble out Filipino, the internal language actual from Tagalog,and 56% speak some form of position, darn 74% stem creation compe cristalt to figure mouth English. The indepth sharp exfoliation admit describe in this root word sought-after(a) to wonder the appear generations social occasion and rating of the English language vis a vis Filipino/Tagalog and Philippine languages new(prenominal) than Tagalog (referred to in this wallpaper as PLOT). The participants were groups of Filipino unripe people, in their last yr of alternate school, who came from three non-Tagalog verbalize communities i n the Philippines. \nThe multilayered lingusitic inheritance of the Philippines. end-to-end its history, the Philippines has been a country of ethnical and linguistic complexness with a inheritance which includes the excerption of a sorting of cultures upon the Indo-Malay base). Although the galore(postnominal) islands which stick it up be infinitesimal in foothold of geographical theater of operations (116, 220 sq. miles in all), the Philippines is a pluralistic and bilingual society. The social population speaks ten major and many an(prenominal) new(prenominal) numerically littler languages, generally be to the Austr hotshotsian family. Although they describe say languages, in that they ar not mutually evident and charter many foot soldier dialects, they are all the way related to one another(prenominal) and regarded as be to the Philippine type. \n