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KCC VISION STATEMENT
The Kabankalan Catholic College is an educative and
evangelizing community, fostering the values of love,
life, justice, and care for creation, an agent of
societal transformation and builder
of God’s kingdom.
KCC MISSION STATEMENT
The KCC exists to provide quality education and
holistic formation to the youth of the Diocese,
having a preferential option for the poor, in a Christ-
centered environment that cultivates academic
excellence and continuous learning.
EL 104 – LANGUAGE PROGRAMS AND
POLICIES IN MULTILINGUAL SOCIETIES
This is a three-unit course which
provides a survey of local and
international basic education
language programs and policies that
account for issues and considerations
relevant to the engagement of
teachers in school settings.
SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY/THURSDAY
TERMS:
Prelim (September 28-29)
Midterm (November 9-10)
Final (January 11-12)
GRADING SYSTEM:
Quizzes/ Assignments 30%
Periodical Test/Examination 50%
Performance & Participation 20 %
100%
What is
:
Language is a speech sound
produced by human beings to
express their ideas, emotions,
thoughts, desires, and feelings.
Language is the inherent
capability of native speakers
to understand and form
grammatical sentences.
Language focuses on the
utterances produced by all the
community’s people and
hence overlooks writing.
Language is a system of conventional
or written symbols through which
human beings, as members of social
groups and participants in their
culture, communicate.
UN D E R S TA N D I N G
MU LT I L I N G UA L I S M
how
started?
THE TOWER OF BABEL
COLONIZATION
MIGRATION OF PEOPLE
The multitude of languages
that exist is approximately at
6000-7000 languages
worldwide. This is also
known as linguistic diversity.
The only country that is
legitimately identified as
linguistically homogenous or
monolingual.
is a
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presented the concept of
multilingualism and its
inevitability as a phenomenon.
Why is
MULTILINGUALISM
a common
phenomenon?
because there are more
languages in the world
(almost 7,000) than countries.
It follows that a significant
number of speakers have
more than one language.
because languages are
“unevenly distributed”;
speakers of the minority
language groups need to learn
and use the language of the
majority groups.
because we have immigrants
who speak their first language
and who need to acquire and
speak the language of the host
or new country.
because we learn additional
languages, like English, for
better social and economic
opportunities.
Three Factors that have
Contributed to the
VISIBILITY OF
MULTILINGUALISM
GLOBALIZATION
• Connectedness of different
countries
• Export and Import – they
have to understand each
other in order to trade
GLOBALIZATION
• Languages are being
transferred between
communities, culture, and
economies.
TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY
OF THE POPULATION
• Immigration – a person
going to another country
and therefore that country
has a language, and you
need to learn that
TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY
OF THE POPULATION
• Socialization - learn the
language of a specific
nation to socialize and
connect with them.
SPREAD OF NEW
TECHNOLOGY
• Innovation - use the
technology to learn the
language
Other Definition of
MULTILINGUALISM
according to
Cenoz (2013)
MULTILINGUALISM
A multilingual individual is
anyone who can
communicate in more than
one language, be it active or
passive.
MULTILINGUALISM
The ability of societies,
institutions, groups and
individuals to engage, on a
regular basis, with more than
one language in their day-to-
day lives.
Why is
linguistic diversity
needed?
Languages are “libraries of the
intangible heritage of
humankind.” Human
knowledge, history, and
experiences are stored and
encoded in languages.
Languages reflect an
individual and a
community’s culture,
tradition, and identity.
Diversity in languages and
cultures result in more ideas
and creativity for
communities to adapt to the
changing world.
The significance of linguistic
diversity was compared with
ecological diversity where
diversity is directly related to
stability which is important
for long-term survival.
watch this
Multilingualism is considered
as a rule or a common
phenomenon. What do you
think prompts or drives people
to become multilinguals?
In a 1 yellow paper,
answer the following:
After watching the video, what
do you think are the pros and
cons of multilingualism in the
world today? Discuss.
In a 1 yellow paper,
answer the following:
What do you think is the
effect of multilingualism to
the world? Does it unite or
divide people? Explain
comprehensively.
