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The Supremacy of English in Philippine Language Education Policy

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This chapter presents a critical description of language education policies in the Philippines from 2001 to 2009. During this period in Philippine education history, the privileging of the English language was evident in government pronouncements, directives, practices, and teaching materials. The chapter discusses five archival documents from the period, and they point to the facilitation of linguistic imperialism (Phillipson 1992), which promotes unsafe beliefs about English language teaching. In the end, this chapter makes a case for the continued use of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE) in Philippine education.

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Doplon, F.P.G. (2018). The Supremacy of English in Philippine Language Education Policy. In: Martin, I. (eds) Reconceptualizing English Education in a Multilingual Society. English Language Education, vol 13. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7528-5_3

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