SAVING THE DYING PHILIPPINES LANGUAGES: Multiple official languages model is best, but what about...
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
In brief, the difficulty in learning Tagalog by foreigners (and outsiders such as Visayan children) is intrinsic to Tagalogās grammar....
SAVING THE DYING PHILIPPINES LANGUAGES: Multiple official languages model is best, but what about...
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
THE CRITERIA
One, it should be a minority language. This is the most important criterion. As explained above, a minority language...
Monumental laziness
BY EDISON MARTE SICAD
āI like the word āindolenceā. It makes my laziness seem classy.ā ā Bernard Williams
A FRIEND once shared to me how he...
Saving dying Philippine languages, 5
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
THERE IS a biological basis for multilingualism. The human brain is hardwired to learn multiple languages, and this is evidenced...
Saving dying Philippine languages, 4
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
WE HAVE to acknowledge that the makers of a Constitution are human and humans have made and could make mistakes,...
Saving dying Philippine languages, 3
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
1987 Constitution
The 1987 Philippine Constitution does not mandate for the development and adoption of a common national language based onā¦āone...
Saving dying Philippine languages, 2
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
ART. XIV
SEC.6. The national language of the Philippines is Filipino. As it evolves, it shall be further developed and enriched...
Saving dying Philippine languages, 1
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
THE MOTHER Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) is officially dead.
Republic Act No. 12027, which has recently lapsed into law, has discontinued...
SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 8: Big double mammal brains trumped the...
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
(Part 5)
HOMO erectus lived from almost two million to around 30,000 years ago (a point in time when Homo sapiens...
SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 8: Big double mammal brains trumped the...
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
(Part 4)
AMONG mammals, humans and oceanic dolphins have the largest brain to body mass ratio.
There are numerous theories on why...