ENGLISH AS THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION FOR SCIENCE AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE LANGUAGES OF THE PHILIPPINES

In conclusion, this small-scale investigating in three non-Tagalog speaking communities revealed a complex entirely stable multilingual situation which the emerging generation of new-fashioned people gave examine of taking for given or pass judgment as normal. age the majority of respondents seemed to get word this situation in positive terms, in that location was a minority who expressed veto views towards one of the addresss touch on or explained the bewilderment it engendered for them. Thus this claim provided only mevery limited express of conflict surrounded by the lyric poems or of respondents who were indisposed(p) to a circumstantial linguistic process. The evidence of the resiliency of the Filipino language indicated by this a posteriori research would bet to be legitimate with the judgement of Gonzales that none of the major Philippine languages and hardly any of the minority languages argon faced with liquidation at the give birth moment . In the parade study, the data on linguistic energizing to different interlocutors and the meanings assign by the students to the variant languages pointed in fussy to a kind of what Sibayan (1978) called complementary distribution, where from each one of the languages mapd was prize by the participants as having its own particular on-going role. These findings closely think over the assessment by Gonzales that a trilingual situation is creation maintained in the non-Tagalog speaking regions of the Philippines. He maintained that the speech (or PLOT) was still the language of the home and the neighbourhood, enchantment Filipino was the field language, which functioned as a symbol of haleness and linguistic identity. English, in contrast, was the language of academic discourse, especially for business, science and diplomacy. In the dumbfound of the respondents in this study, advance to English as the literary language of education, science and inter nationa listic communication had not resulted in a general transmutation away from Filipino as the national language or from the spoken use of their PLOT, as a core survey of their community emotional state and the language adjacent to their homes and hearts.