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LECTURES
The Bonifacio P. Sibayan
Distinguished Professorial Chair in Applied Linguistics
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Established on February 1, 1991 and is managed in perpetuity by the De La Salle University Science Foundation, Inc. on behalf of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Inc.
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Held annually, the BPS Professorial Chair was established to honor illustrious teachers, writers, scholars, school administrators, and above all staunch advocates of excellence by the Filipino to serve as a living model for the youth to emulate.
2022
March 19, 2022
10 AM to 12 PM
Zoom
Meeting ID: 827 2305 7251
Passcode: LSP_BPS22
Gina O. Gonong
Philippine National Research Center for Teacher Quality (PNRCTQ), Philippine Normal University
Languaging the Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers
This lecture focuses on the linguistic foundations of the development of the PPST - how it was shaped through language using the shared knowledge, practices, experiences and aspirations of the profession while at the same time being cognizant of the evolving expected demands on teachers in the 21st century. The applied research work faced the challenges of capturing the diverse and unique characteristics of Filipino teachers as embodied in discourse, and providing an acceptable common language for the profession from initial training to acknowledged, outstanding practice through professional standards while addressing issues of teacher ownership and control.
The linguistic lends through which the qualitative data were analyzed used critical discourse analysis, semantic analysis, corpus-based content analysis for large text samples and lexical analysis. The qualitative data offered rich perspectives to explain the quantitative data that were analyzed using the Rasch Model. The three years of iterative development work on languaging the professional standards, involving numerous consultations with key stakeholders particularly teachers, resulted in a statistically robust and an operationally manageable model of teacher professional standards in the Philippines.
Gina O. Gonong holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Philippine Normal University where she is currently and Associate Professor. She is the Director of the Philippine National Research Center for Teacher Quality (RCTQ). She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the University of New England in Australia and earned a post-doctoral fellowship for her leadership in research from the same university. She weas also granted an Australian Awards Fellowship.
2020
Analiza Liezl Perez-Amurao
Mahidol University International College
They are 'Asians just like us': Filipino teachers, colonial aesthetics and English language education in Thailand
Filipino teachers have become the largest group of foreign teachers in Thailand as English language education gains increasing importance in the Kingdom. Their migratory experience, however, demonstrates that schools favor white native English speakers over them. Differential treatments of Filipino and white NES teachers in Thai schools are manifested overtly in the form of pay gap and in more subtle micropolitics of bodily managements. By examining a postcolonial view and the notion of English language teaching as aesthetic labor, this study puts forward the following: (1) Filipino teachers are generally found to experience overt discrimination in the workplace where their race and the variant of English language they produce place them as second–class foreign teachers compared to white native English speakers from Western countries, (2) Filipino teachers are expected to embody warm and caring personalities and present well–kept and beautiful bodies while their male native English speaker counterparts are exempted from the feminization of the teaching profession, (3) Thai schools construct themselves as venues where everyone—administrators, staff, students, and even parents—can experience the West through their literal physical proximity with western teachers, and (4) the identification of the main causes behind the inequitable occupational protocols in the employment practices of said Thai schools can help address the need to diminish, if not eliminate, the observed polarities between NES and NNES teachers.
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