Filipino as the Medium of Instruction

English is our medium of communication whether we like it or not it brings understanding to communicators with different nationalities. Since Philippines have many vernaculars, people in different provinces would likely use this language to communicate if they find it difficult to speak tagalog whenever they landed to strange places. That is a fact. It helps us to become globally competitive in terms of communication just in communication because i still believed that the country's development doesn't lie in what language they used but with the kind of leadership and mentality they have. the fact that english is used as a medium of instruction. We know the English is a international language. And this fast moving world mostly depends on it. so a person who want to study it must be fluent in English. i its very important in it enabled education. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has categorically instructed the Department of Education (DepEd) to return to the use of English as the medium of instruction in the Philippine schools. This has stirred adverse reactions from academicians, linguists and nationalists lambasting it as a betrayal of Filipino nationhood.

The president is alarmed with the continued decline of the English proficiency in schools that has said to have begun when the Filipino language was officially declared as the medium of teaching in 1989. "Filipinos' fluency in the English language has fallen after it was scrapped," Arroyo said.

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) has also begun providing free courses in English to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Said the OWA's former administrator Wilhelm Soriano: "Although proficiency in the English language is not the only basis for the continuous high demand for OFWs, it remains as one of the assets and as such must be preserved.'"

Alarmed at the population's declining proficiency in English, the DepEd has restructured the curriculum this school year to give special emphasis and increased time for English. Private schools have readily obliged. They have been using the English language from way, way back anyway. But public schools have yet to comply.

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