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Bernardo, Alejandro S. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
This paper is an initial attempt to characterise the schoolscape of a four-century old higher education institution in the Philippines and the oldest existing university in Asia, The Royal, Catholic, and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (UST). Through a systematic inventory of 2,410 visual signs, the analysis of the functional sign…
Descriptors: Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
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Rubio, Bianca; Briseño, Lisa; Kukucka, Claudia; Liggett, Langdon; Medina, Mauricio; Rodriguez, Betsy; Dicent Taillepierre, Julio; Rodriguez Lainz, Alfonso – Health Education Journal, 2023
Background: Health education materials translated for limited English proficiency audiences should be clear and easy to understand. They should be reviewed by fluent and culturally competent reviewers using a standardised and validated assessment tool. Design/Setting: A total of 139 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19-translated…
Descriptors: Health Education, Disease Control, Prevention, Public Health
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Martinez, Julius C. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This sociohistorical study probes an archaeological artefact called the Laguna Copperplate Inscription (LCI) to suggest that translingualism, a sociolinguistic orientation that foregrounds the fluidity of language boundaries, was practised by precolonial Filipinos. It then analyses how translingual practices were potentially devalued by linguistic…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Tagalog, Colonialism
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Osborne, Dana – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Philippine archipelago transitioned from nearly 400 years of colonial occupation under the Spanish to imperial occupation under the Americans. This analysis interrogates the dynamics through which the heterogeneous languages of the Philippine archipelago were maintained alongside state-sanctioned languages…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Multilingualism, Language Maintenance, Official Languages
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Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2009
This study examines pragmatic differentiation in early trilingual development through a longitudinal analysis of language choice in a developing Tagalog-Spanish-English trilingual child. The child's patterns of language choice with different language users are analyzed at age 1 ; 10 and 2 ; 4 to examine: (1) whether evidence for pragmatic…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Pragmatics, Multilingualism, Longitudinal Studies
Malagon, Helen; McCold, Paul; Nelson, Joan Johnston – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2013
This report provides an update on the Transitional Bilingual Instruction Program (TBIP). In 2012-13, 104,025 English language learners (ELLs) received state services through the TBIP. This was an increase of just over 9% from the previous year. Most students live in urban areas along Interstate 5 corridor and in rural areas like the Yakima Valley.…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction
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Salazar, Danica; Verdaguer, Isabel – International Journal of English Studies, 2009
The present study is a corpus-based analysis of a selection of polysemous lexical verbs used to express modality in student argumentative writing. Twenty-three lexical verbs were searched for in three 100,000-word corpora of argumentative essays written in English by American, Filipino and Spanish university students. Concordance lines were…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse
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Bureau of the Census (DOC), Washington, DC. Economics and Statistics Administration. – 1994
Responses to the 1990 United States census question concerning languages other than English that are spoken at home are summarized. It was found that in 1990, 14 percent of the population 5 years and older spoke a language other than English at home, as contrasted with 11 percent in 1980. Languages spoken most commonly at home in descending order…
Descriptors: Arabic, Census Figures, Chinese, Demography
Cornejo, Ricardo; Nadeau, Adel – 1978
This is the first in a series of papers on research, development, and training for bilingual/multicultural education. The first two sections of the paper describe Task Force findings specifying remedies available for eliminating past educational practices ruled unlawful under Lau v Nichols, particularly the section dealing with identification of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Court Litigation