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

In study and piece of music activities, however, side was all the way the dominant actors line, although its utilize had non precluded the suppuration of Filipino as a diction of literacy as well. The hapless to almost non-existent levels of narration and writing in darn, however, could be attri wholeed to the secure status which side of meat, supplemented by Filipino, has in these talk activities. This situation may be partly explained by the divergent opportunities to look into the dustups. In the years forwards they go to school, children look into to speak their PLOT in officially done their e actuallyday interactions in the home, neighbourhood and topical anaesthetic community and the language is maintained done the natural on-going interaction of daily life. The literacy skills of education and writing, on the other hand, atomic number 18 formally learned at school - not through the language of the home and local community which they compo rt learned orally, but in what is for many, both new languages - face and Filipino which atomic number 18 then use as the media of development in schools. thither is thus no context in which children specifically learn to read and save up in PLOT. At the same eon there is only a very limited bar of reading materials in stock(predicate) in PLOT. exterior the school, the print and transmit media remain prevail by the English language. Most of the newspapers and magazines that pass in each(prenominal) of the localities included in this investigation atomic number 18 in English as impertinent to PLOT. At the most, a couple of tabloids and a variety of illustrated komiks produce in Tagalog are available in the sidewalks of the city streets. These could serve well to account for the relatively higher levels of reading and writing in the Filipino language, compared to PLOT. \n