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…

English and Filipino (Tagalog) are the official languages of the Philippines. English is taught in schools and used as a medium of instruction as early as kindergarten. Because it was originally imposed by Western colonialism, its use in academia has been criticised as discriminatory to regional and indigenous languages other than Tagalog, which…

This is a guide to spoken Tagalog. It includes hints on pronunciation, useful words and phases, fill-in-the-blank exercises, and an alphabetical word list. Words and phrases are listed in English, followed by a phonetic representation of the Tagalog word or phrase, and then by the Tagalog spelling. (AM)

This report, a follow up to H. McKaughan's article "Language Materials Development" (Philippine Journal for Language Teaching; v2 n1-2 1969), reports on a project at the Pacific and Asian Linguistic Institute (PALI) of the University of Hawaii to develop a set of materials for seven Philippine languages: Bikol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon,…

This English-Pilipino phrase book is designed for the English speaking person learning Pilipino. The useful phrases and vocabulary words are divided into eleven sections: basic needs and safety; greetings and amenities; getting acquainted; directions and classroom articles; calendar, numbers, and time; subjects; shapes, sizes, and colors; body…

This Pilipino resource book contains 15 open-ended stories and numerous drawings about the theme and interaction that pertain to a social studies curriculum for grades three and four developed by the Asian American Bilingual Center. The Center is a project of the Berkeley, California Unified School District and California State University. The…

This trilingual-bicultural reader in Pilipino (Tagalog), Ilokano, and English is intended for elementary school children in a bilingual education setting. Pen-and-ink drawings illustrate the story of a Filipino family and the events involved in a rice harvest. (NCR)

The material development needs for the Southeast Asian languages are analyzed as follows: (1) both student and reference grammars must be produced; (2) student and reference English-Foreign Language dictionaries are needed; (3) research is needed in sociolinguistics, semantic analyses, linguistic surveys; (4) elementary, intermediate and advanced…

These instructional materials on Filipino Americans for elementary students were developed through the K.E.Y.S. project (knowledge of English Yields Success). The contents include statistics on the Filipino American population, background information about the Philippines becoming a U.S. territory, early immigration and more recent immigration to…

The curriculum for Manitoba's heritage language instruction program in Filipino outlines the curriculum's rationale and design and suggests techniques and materials for carrying out instruction. Introductory sections discuss general program goals, general and specific objectives for each language skill area (listening, speaking, reading, writing,…

This language textbook is designed for beginning students of Tagalog, the principal language spoken on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The introduction discusses the history of Tagalog and certain features of the language. An explanation of the text is given, along with notes for the teacher. The text itself is divided into nine sections:…

This trilingual-bicultural reader in Pilipino (Tagalog), Ilokano, and English is intended for elementary school children in a bilingual education setting. Pen-and-ink drawings illustrate the story of a Filipino-American family celebrating Christmas. (NCR)

This document discusses in detail the development and operation of a language program implemented in the Philippines, beginning in 1957, with the assistance of the University of California, Los Angeles, through the Rockefeller Foundation. The program faced a number of difficulties including a school system in the process of post-war rebuilding, a…

This article describes the shift from English to Filipino (Tagalog) as the language of instruction in elementary social studies education in the Philippines, focusing on the Philippines Department of Education's efforts to implement pre-service and in-service teacher training programs to expedite the change. In 1974 the Department of Education…

This Tagalog translation manual for nursing aides is designed to improve reading skills of U.S. immigrants. After short readings in Tagalog, and English translations of vocabulary/phrases, comprehension, grammar, and language usage exercises are presented. Topical areas include: food, the hospital staff, body language, cleanliness in the hospital,…