Frances Doplon

Ateneo de Manila University, English, Faculty Member

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Conference Presentations by Frances Doplon

➢ Linguistic Diversity in Philippine Language Education Policy: Challenges and Opportunities

➢ Philippine Languages-in-Education Policy: The Story Thus Far

➢ Hegemony in Philippine Languages in Education Policy

➢ Dead or Alive? Linguistic Imperialism in Philippine Education

➢ Raising Awareness on Varieties of English through Popular Culture

➢ Philippine Tabloid News: English as Resistance and Subservience

➢ Code-Switching in Philippine Tabloids: A Post-Colonial Analysis

Papers by Frances Doplon

The Supremacy of English in Philippine Language Education Policy

This chapter presents a critical description of language education policies in the Philippines fr... more 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.

Code-Switching in Philippine Tabloids: Subservience and Resistance in a Post-Colonial Society

What is the link between social values and linguistic features in the real world that students ar... more What is the link between social values and linguistic features in the real world that students are being prepared for? With the range and depth of cultural interaction in the 21 st century, our learners find themselves in a multilingual society where the mixing of language in daily conversation finds its way to written work. By analyzing a corpus from the tabloids or compact newspapers, it is possible to further describe the reality of code-switching in the Philippines. The corpus is comprised of seven consecutive cover stories from the tabloid, Abante, whose base language is Filipino. The study investigates the syntactic categories code-switched, the linguistic assumptions the text makes regarding its readers, and possible reasons for switching to English. The analysis of the multiple motivations for code-switching conveys a connection between linguistic features and cultural values of a post-colonial society. The analysis from a historical-political context reveals conflicting vie...