SABBATICAL NOTES. 26 APRIL 2014. EASTER SATURDAY. Reiterating an argument: there is in the Philippines a continuing language miseducation of the Filipinos, and this miseducation is state-sanctioned, state-sponsored, and affirmed by language educators who do not know any better. THE CONTEXT IS THIS: I was asked by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines, at its 49th annual conference, to chair a panel on the theme of the conference, Language Education of the the Philippines. I delivered a wallop. I said simply: there is no real, honest-to-goodness language education in the Philippines. What we have, I argued, is education in linguistic hegemony. It has been, and continues to be, an education in the language of other people, but never in the language of the people. There is nothing worse than believing in this widespread deception about a fictitious national language based on Filipino, which is NEVER a language but a dialect of Tagalog. This repeated lie has been turned into some kind of a state-sanctioned and language educators-approved truth out of a Goebbelsian tecnique of lying repeatedly. I also told those in the gallery: our people have been asked to learn Tagalog, and we have obliged everyone as a matter of educational imposition, but the Tagalog people have never been obliged to learn anything about ANY of our languages. This is linguistic asymmetry. One applied linguist from Iloilo came to me after and told me: It is only now that I am beginning to understand many things, BATAC/
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:59:09 +0000
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