Pulido is 2025 Danilo T. Dayag Memorial Lecturer

The Linguistic Society of the Philippines has announced that the featured speaker for the 2025 Danilo T. Dayag Memorial Lecture is Dr. Dennis H. Pulido of Far Eastern University. To commemorate the event, Dr. Dayag will give the lecture titled A Critical Discourse Analysis of Senate Bill No. 2457 Amending the Use of the Mother Tongue as Medium of Instruction in Basic Education.

This hybrid lecture was held in the multipurpose hall of 20/F, Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall, De La Salle University last March 15, 2025 (Wednesday) at 10 AM to 12 PM.

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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Senate Bill No. 2457 Amending the Use of the Mother Tongue as Medium of Instruction in Basic Education

Dr. Dennis H. Pulido

Abstract

The current study uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyze the lexical, contextual, and discoursal features of Senate Bill No. 2457 (SB 2547) that discontinues the use of the mother tongue from Kinder to Grade 3. The analytical framework proposed by Merkl-Davies and Koller (2012) is applied to examine SB 2457 in three levels (micro-level, meso-level, macro-level). Analysis focuses on lexico-grammatical features that perform the following: introduce each section and provide relevant expositions; identify the pertinent agents that are supposed to plan and implement the necessary changes in the medium of instruction; and the syntactic functions of the modal verb shall. The implications of the approval of the bill in relation to language teaching in the Philippines conclude the study.

Bionote

Dr. Dennis H. Pulido is Professor 1 in the Department of Language and Literature at Far Eastern University. He was the former Institute of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Special Projects and the Director of the University Research Center. Her served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines from 2017 to 2023. Dr. Pulido is referee in various local and international journals.

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About the DTD Memorial Lecture

The Danilo T. Dayag Memorial Lecture is co-hosted by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) and the Department of English and Applied Linguistics (DEAL) of the Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education, De La Salle University.

The DTD Memorial Lecture was established on March 17, 2016, and is managed by the Department of English and Applied Linguistics (DEAL) to honor a distinguished scholar, linguist, mentor, and longtime LSP board member and PJL editor.