Reconceptualizing English Education in a Multilingual Society
English in the Philippines
Editors: Martin, Isabel Pefianco (Ed.)
Free Preview- Challenges traditional assumptions of the English language as monolithic and unchanging
- Opposes a neutral, de-contextualized approach to English-language teaching and learning in the Philippines
- Presents changing realities of the English language and how it should be taught and learned in the Philippines
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- About this book
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This book brings together chapters that describe, investigate, and analyze the place of English in education in multilingual Philippines. Unlike most studies on languages in education, which take a neutral, de-contextualized stance, this volume take a pluricentric view of the English language by positioning it in relation to its varieties, as well as to other languages in the country. Because of the changing realities of English in the Philippines, traditional assumptions about the language as monolithic and unchanging, as well as about how it should be taught and learned, need to be revisited and re-conceptualized.
- About the authors
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Isabel Pefianco Martin is an associate professor and chair of the Department of English at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. She is a leading figure in English-language studies in the country, having published in various internationally recognized publications on topics ranging from world Englishes, Philippine English, English-language education, English sociolinguistics and language policy to forensic linguistics, and language and law studies. She has held longtime leadership positions in the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) and now serves as an advisor on the LSP board. She has served and continues to serve in private and government institutions that are concerned with upgrading English-language education in the Philippines.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Reconceptualizing English Education in Multilingual Philippines
Pages 3-11
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English in Multilingual Settings: Features, Roles and Implications
Pages 15-28
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The Supremacy of English in Philippine Language Education Policy
Pages 29-46
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Critiquing Mother Tongue-Based Language-in-Education Policies: A Focus on the Philippines
Pages 47-65
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Anguish as Mother Tongue: English in a Multilingual Context
Pages 67-83
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Reconceptualizing English Education in a Multilingual Society
- Book Subtitle
- English in the Philippines
- Editors
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- Isabel Pefianco Martin
- Series Title
- English Language Education
- Series Volume
- 13
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-10-7528-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-10-7528-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-10-7526-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-3961-5
- Series ISSN
- 2213-6967
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 226
- Number of Illustrations
- 20 b/w illustrations
- Topics