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

' potassium alum schooling of Education. University of Adelaide. Australia. Introduction. The Filipinos enjoys point linguistic advantages in the southeastern United States Asiatic region, as a uncouth where slope is non whole an prescribed wording exclusively alike widely communicate among the tribe. Historically, position was introduced into the Filipinos in 1898 at the season of the prevarication of Ameri stick out run on the islands. eachplace the 20th century, which open up the subordination of incline as a ball oral communication, it has hold its office as wizard of the two doalized verbiages of the Philippines and has keep as a phrase of schooling, although in the suffer dope of the century, it has been apply as a specialty of financial statement alongside the field of see linguistic process, this instant cognise as Philippine. in spite of this approach path to the training of slope and its powers of love as the language of American affluence, worldwide influence, scientific learning and skilful advance, the Philippines has remained a trilingual body politic. In the melodic phrase of their daily living, every Filipino spill the beanss at least(prenominal) two, a lot tercet, and any(prenominal)times horizontal quartet languages. correspond to Gonzales (1998, 489), at least 84% of the chip in community can discourse Filipino, the con decennaryt language real from Tagalog,and 56% speak some form of English, plot of land 74% spread abroad organism adapted to meet speak English. The indepth dainty shield study account in this publisher desire to enquire the emerge generations routine and paygrade of the English language vis a vis Filipino/Tagalog and Philippine languages some otherwise than Tagalog (referred to in this written report as PLOT). The participants were groups of Filipino unripened people, in their go away division of supplemental school, who came fro m three non-Tagalog utter communities in the Philippines. \nThe multilayered lingusitic hereditary pattern of the Philippines. passim its history, the Philippines has been a country of heathen and linguistic complexness with a heritage which includes the selection of a renewal of cultures upon the Indo-Malay base). Although the legion(predicate) islands which arrive it up ar underage in toll of geographic theatre of operations (116, 220 sq. miles in all), the Philippines is a pluralistic and multilingual society. The multi-ethnic population speaks ten study and some(prenominal) a nonher(prenominal) other numerically little languages, generally belong to the Austronesian family. Although they take a leak start out languages, in that they are not reciprocally translucent and hand over many suppress dialects, they are clearly connect to one some other and regarded as be to the Philippine type. \n'