Essential Questions: Read Reading Material 2 and Answer Each Item in Not More Than 10 Sentences

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READING MATERIAL 2 & LORENZO, VIVIAN IRISH M.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
LANGUAGE PROGRAMS AND POLICIES IN TOPIC: Education, language policy and language
MULTILINGUAL SOCIETIES use in the Philippines
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Essential Questions: Read Reading Material 2 and answer each item in not more than 10 sentences.

1. What are the global trends impacting the language policy in the Philippines?
2. Is the use of English in the Philippines a unifying factor amongst its people or a promoter of social
inequality? Defend your answer.
3. What do you think is the role of language in controlling access to economic resources, political
institutions and power?
4. How does the idea of the Philippines being a home to 170 languages make language planning more
challenging than usual?
5. Is linguistic imperialism present in the Philippines? If yes, pls provide situations where this
phenomenon can be observed.
6. How did colonialism affect the language preference of the Filipinos?

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