What is the state of the Philippine short story in English today and what are its prospects in the next century? There is a general agreement that it is in the field of the short story that Filipino writers excelled from the beginning but they were always conscious of the need to sound ...
The Ibong Adarna is a mythical story comprised of narrative song and poetry called corrido and is considered a large part of Filipino literature. It is usually studied in the country as part of the secondary school curriculum. The author of this fantastic story still remains unknown and uncertai...
The Student App also provides vocabulary supports, captioning of Anchor Videos, supports in the eReads and parent materials for five major world languages spoken in California (Spanish, Vietnamese, Filipino, Cantonese, and Mandarin), and Spanish translations that can help students with beginni...
Filipino teachers were instructed to use English, and those American teachers who had some knowledge of Spanish, Tagalog, or other languages were directed not to use them, so as not to delay the entry of the Filipino child into the totality of English. By 1904, the system of public ...
THE SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH AS FILIPINO ARTIFACTORDOÑEZ, ELMER A
Reading short fiction by Ligaya Victorio Fruto, a writer on the margin of the Philippine Anglophone canon, this essay proposes that the short storyin its form and practiceallowed women writers to depict the contradictions of national unity and class conflict, and modern and traditional Filipino ...
(Re)examining the use of code-switching in Philippine literature in English has implications for interrogating changing attitudes of Philippine student writers and readers toward the negotiation and use of English, Filipino, and/or Taglish in writing. Students are tasked now to reflect on their ...