First Language First: Literacy Education for the Future in a Multilingual Philippine Society  

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Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 5 no. 4 (2002), page 221 — 232.
Fulltext: Vol. 5, No. 4 , 221-232.pdf (178.65KB)

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The Philippines Bilingual Education policy emphasises the need to develop literacy in Filipino as a linguistic symbol of national unity and identity and in English as a language of wider communication. However, many Filipino children begin their education in a language they do not speakor understand aswell as their first language. In this setting, only the learners’ first language can provide the kind of bridge to a personal identity that incorporates both an ethnic and a national dimension. The author contends that a technicalmodel of literacy acquisition that emphasises literacy primarily as an economic skill for use in the workplace cannot achieve the policy goals. An alternative, ideological model of literacy is proposed which develops the critical thinking skills of the students, builds cognitive and affectivedomains, andvalues their local language experienceand culture. Thus, by first establishingthe empowering role of language in the social systemof the students’community, groundwork is laid for the expansion of the students’ identity to include their role in the larger national and international contexts.

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