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negrense
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Why Bacolod city,why not Cebu?
I am originally from the Oriental side of Negros- cebuano speaking.But to chose Bacolod for it,doesn't seem to fit in well.Maybe somebody from Dept of Ed is a Ninang of so n so or just connected to Bacolod.
This is pass around and said to be typical of people from Bacolod to say: " Ang pera namin ay gina piko,ginapala,at gina boldus pa "
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just promoted
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yehey! Thanks for the NEAP, They finally found a very nice venue for the training.
Yes it's true, English should be enhanced to its maximum level since filipino students are getting worst in their capacity to use the language. I hope there are new strategies to look forward.
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Vortex
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I think the article means that it will be a training center to instruct teaching staff to properly teach English to students. More than likely it's conceived where evaluated as most needed. I think it should be a more pleasant spot than the bustling center of Manila but then there are plenty of great places it could be located. Lets hope more importantly that the job gets properly done and after prooven success they'll go on to creating more centers to cover all the country's educators.
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RJC
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just promoted wrote: yehey! Thanks for the NEAP, They finally found a very nice venue for the training.
Yes it's true, English should be enhanced to its maximum level since filipino students are getting worst in their capacity to use the language. I hope there are new strategies to look forward. I am a American who lived in Davao city for 6 months..The english training in the philippines is very good proper english...But Americans use many slangs in everyday conversations. This slang should also be placed in traning of english...It would help greatly I think....
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negrense
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I really hate those years of Cory when her admin did all fucos in ultra-nationalistic ventures and put in more emphases on Tagalog language instead of english in schools.Since her days and down to diff admins english deteriorates among students because of this flaw done by CORY.We can see it now with many uni or collage grads hardly speaking better english.There were even discussions those days of translating mathematical and science book into Tagalog.Cebu people think of it as outrageous,in fact few groups in the visayas were trying to translate the National anthem into Cebuano .I was horrified with the idea studying biology in tagalog language or be taught mathematical cources in tagalog, imagine that!Now things are back and getting better in this admin or Arroyo.Also the current BPOs in the Ph demand of better english speakers help up this emphases of teaching the english language.
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Pete Jones
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I am a qualified British English teacher. I believe the provision of English as a taught subject needs to be drastically improved in Bacalod.
American English is a very poor version of the language but even that would be better than nothing. You need to invest in education, employ native speakers or former OSW who have gained experience in the UK etc.
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bayanimc
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Pete Jones wrote: I am a qualified British English teacher. I believe the provision of English as a taught subject needs to be drastically improved in Bacalod.
American English is a very poor version of the language but even that would be better than nothing. You need to invest in education, employ native speakers or former OSW who have gained experience in the UK etc. Which accent is more widely used globally, British or American?
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sumisilangko
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Hello….
Language is a tool…of the mind. Most schools even in America are failing to teach the children how to think and their children are lagging behind the Asian students in mathematics and science. Studies had been conducted to support the hypothesis that the family culture of the children is the overriding reasons why children from Singapore, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Asian children in America are surpassing their peers from American household who never had instruction in any other language other than English. And that is what is happening in the Philippines.
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sumisilangko
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If those children who are taught through the English medium and those who are being taught through Pilipino medium are evaluated, and considering the teacher’s ability to teach critical thinking, those who develop good use of their mind through the language of their parents….will advance at a much faster pace than those who were readily taken out of their first language…thus arresting the continuous growth of their minds for critical thinking because they were readily immersed in an English class only instructions. Ano ang ika-apat? Ask this question to a child who had never been taught through English, yet was readily cut off from his own mother tongue…unless the teacher teach this concept as if it is an entirely new idea a child must learn through the use of pictures and manipulations of concrete examples…as the teacher engage the child with active question/answer interaction…it will take time for that child to absorb the meaning of that concept, a fourth of something. But if the child is taught this concept, using both his mother tongue while introducing him to their English expression, it will help the child to apply what he already knew (that is if he comes form a educationally oriented home environment… filled with children who he had played and used the concept of “ika-apat” na grupo, ika-apat na baiting, ika-apat na palapag…etc. The problem in the school today is too much time is spent in aimless watching of television without any interaction for the mind to develop critical thinking….not because of English vs. Pilipino issue. We are barking on the wrong tree. The teacher should be guided by her/his common sense when to use the child’s vernacular and when to use English in his/her teaching. Which ever will facilitate the child’s use of his power to think should be the primary focus during the early years.
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sumisilangko
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In a dysfunctional home, parents do not talk to their children hence there is less interaction amongst members of the family, from cradle on, (it does not have to be in Pilipino)…and if there is chaos and no intentional instruction or modeling provided by the parents…(the very role teacher does in their classrooms…_) to their children, no matter what language is used to teach these children they will always be behind those children who grow up where parents on a daily basis talk to them and stir their mind to think and respond to questions they pose to their children. In order to be a skilled user of the language, the children must have the power to think first. And children learn this through their mothers' tongue.
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sumisilangko
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Good education, for the most part is not a question of whether a child is taught in English or his own mother tongue. Children who come from a home with stimulating vicarious environment…filled with symbolical use of language, even if they are in their own language, the skill they learn is not rote acquisition of their native language but rather what they learn is how to generalize the rules of grammar of their own mother tongue since the nature of language is such that the rules of grammar are universal. That's how chinese are able to survive coming into a new world without the language of the host country. No matter how diffirent chinese language seems to be, when they say "ako kain," "ako gutom na", or "tapos na, busog na", the key ideas are in tact in what they are saying, they are understood and they are able to express their minds. The second language becomes functional and useful. The Filipinos should be allowed to use English as what it is truly is to them...a second language, not the language of their hearts and minds, their dreams and hopes, their pains and joys. English to them must be a tool to master as medium to learn English and Math, at a time when they are ready. This readiness is the object and ends of learning through the early years of their life in school in the language they are born to. For we cannot under estimate the power of motivation in learning. Motivation is derived from meaningful existence, self-concept, who we are as a people of our forefathers. That's how chinese are...and yet anywhere they go, even if their English is broken English and americans could hardly understand them when they first come to America, their learning is excellent. That's becuase what they developed is the power to learn, the power to use their language in thinking, deliberating, comparing, distinguising, critiquing, reflecting, etc. Learning is easy and faster...when they are equipped with the basic understanding they needed in order to think critically what they are to translate into another use of a second language, English or Mandarin, French, or German.
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sumisilangko
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If one says to a Filipino child …’my nose is running’ the imagery that a child will first imagine is a nose getting detached from one’s face, growing two legs and running literally. Hence, things of this sort have to be learned at a much later age after the children have been exposed to reading short stories, interesting novels and other forms of English literature. And even the appreciation of English literature will not come easy if the child is growing barren and empty headed with the literature exposition of his own native environment, his home, his love ones, his playmate, his culture, his country. The translation of their native language into another foreign medium cannot come any earlier than their mastery of their own environment and thinking power through their own language. We are making a big mistake if we think we can just take English and suddenly paste this on the children’s mind. It is true, everything under the sun has their own time and purpose. The same is true in learning. There is what we call “critical time for learning” everything in the order of nature’s composition; from simple to complex. One cannot expect a child to learn and readily do the act of “learning how to learn” if he is forced to do this through unfamiliar language medium lest we exacerbate his confusion and frustration. Raising a child to be more self-assured, confident, motivated and mentally capable is more important than forcing this child to learn through another language inspite of the hardles the unfamiliarity the new language present to a child who is just acquiring a foundation for further learning. Familiarity must first be established while he/she grows in the learning of basic cognitive ability necessary to augment his thinking into the next level of materials he will be expected to understand.
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michelle
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It's right for deped to improve English education in the provinces.It will help reduce the number of people looking for work in manila or other major cities.I think deped should go a step further by promoting more english shows on prime time.
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Bacolodnon
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Negrense, why Cebu and not Bacolod? Negrenses from the Oriental side of the island are really loyal to Cebu.
Well said Sumisilangko! I entirely agree. Children have to be taught using their local language so they will have a better grasp of basic concepts.
Sumisilangko wrote:
"The Filipinos should be allowed to use English as what it is truly is to them...a second language, not the language of their hearts and minds, their dreams and hopes, their pains and joys. English to them must be a tool to master as medium to learn English and Math, at a time when they are ready."
"If those children who are taught through the English medium and those who are being taught through Pilipino medium are evaluated, and considering the teacher’s ability to teach critical thinking, those who develop good use of their mind through the language of their parents….will advance at a much faster pace than those who were readily taken out of their first language…thus arresting the continuous growth of their minds for critical thinking because they were readily immersed in an English class only instructions."
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ms ott
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negrense wrote: I really hate those years of Cory when her admin did all fucos in ultra-nationalistic ventures and put in more emphases on Tagalog language instead of english in schools.Since her days and down to diff admins english deteriorates among students because of this flaw done by CORY.We can see it now with many uni or collage grads hardly speaking better english.There were even discussions those days of translating mathematical and science book into Tagalog.Cebu people think of it as outrageous,in fact few groups in the visayas were trying to translate the National anthem into Cebuano .I was horrified with the idea studying biology in tagalog language or be taught mathematical cources in tagalog, imagine that!Now things are back and getting better in this admin or Arroyo.Also the current BPOs in the Ph demand of better english speakers help up this emphases of teaching the english language. ====== There was a study conducted in the USA to see if non-english learners do better when released from their native language school setting at earlier age and grade, from third, and abruptly placed in an all english-medium instruction setting or do better if allowed to remain in bilingual classes where they receive instrucions in both their native and english is taught as a second language. It was found out that those who remain receiving instructions in their native language, while at the same time learning English as a second language performed and learned better than those students who were abruptly cut-off from learning through their native tongue and readily changed into classroom where instruction was conducted through a language they were just about becoming acquainted with as a foreign language. Maybe some readers can see why....I would love to hear all opinions or comments....
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thepromking
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really bacolod? why not pampanga? i noticed that kapampangan nowadays were really improving a lot and I'm sure that they would going to be the first next time.
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