Two Decades of Research and ExperimentationĭURING the bigger part of one generation that straddled mid-twentieth century and moved through the 1960’s, Philippine research in language teaching has produced a body of theory and practice useful to instruction, curriculum designing, and cultural reorientation. Aguilar wrote detailed reports on the Iloilo Experiments on the Vernacular, the Development of the Santa Barbara Community Schools Project, and a monograph entitled This is Our Community School. On the use of the vernacular - in this case, Hiligaynon - the report said that the students were “more dominant, extrovert, soundly mature and more interested in their schools,” and that the teachers were relieved of the “traditional drudgeries of teaching for they could speak heart to heart with adults and young.” Jose Aguilar’s published works on language included Education for the Forgotten Masses, Significance of Bilingual Education, Native Approach to Education, Influence of Language in Community Life, and Articles on the Case for the Vernacular. When administrative support in training was equally given the home and the second language so that teachers covered as much material as pupils were capable of learning in each language, the pupils with a two-year background in the native language did better, in the main, than those who did not have it.ĭr.
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