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Language Curriculum Timeline

The document outlines the history of language policies and curriculum in the Philippine education system from 1935 to present. It traces the adoption and development of Tagalog as the national language through various executive orders and policies. Key events include the establishment of the Institute of National Language in 1937 to select Tagalog as the basis, revisions to bilingual education policies in 1974 and 1987, and the K-12 program's implementation of mother tongue-based multilingual education.

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Language Curriculum Timeline

The document outlines the history of language policies and curriculum in the Philippine education system from 1935 to present. It traces the adoption and development of Tagalog as the national language through various executive orders and policies. Key events include the establishment of the Institute of National Language in 1937 to select Tagalog as the basis, revisions to bilingual education policies in 1974 and 1987, and the K-12 program's implementation of mother tongue-based multilingual education.

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The national language, more The new program (new policy on bilingual education)

The 1935 Philippine was disseminated through DECS Order No. 25, series President Gloria Macapagal-
popularly known as Tagalog, was
Constitution, mandated 1974. Bilingual education, as defined in the DECS Arroyos implementation of
first introduced in the fourth
that there should be a Order mentioned refers to the separate use of Executive Order 210 series of
year of all public and private
national language to be Pilipino and English as media of instruction in specific 2003, which aimed to
high schools and in the second
adopted and developed subject areas from grade I in all schools. strengthen English as a
based on one of the year of all public and private Medium of Instruction in the
teacher-training institutions.
existing native languages. Philippine educational system.
In 1944, non-Tagalog The 1974 Bilingual Education Program
teachers started was revised in 1987 .The revised policy
On April 12, 1940, Executive learning the language on bilingual education (DECS Order
Order No. 263 was issued through the opening No. 52, s. 1987) states, "Filipino and
ordering among others, the of a Tagalog Institute English shall be used as media of
teaching of the national to enable them to instruction, The two languages shall
language in all public and teach and use the also be taught as subjects in all levels
private schools in the language. to achieve bilingual competence.
country.

1935 1937 1940 1943 1944 1957 1974 1975 1987 1996 2003 2012

In 1937, the Institute of National Language


(INL) was created to select the national
language from the native languages that the This Revised
K to 12s Mother
Philippines has and it was recommended that Educational Program
Tongue-Based,
Tagalog would be the basis for the adoption It was during the of 1957 was criticized
Multilingual
of the national language of the country. Japanese regime, strongly due to the Department
Education.
In the same year, then President Manuel then that the observed weakness of Order No. 50, s.
Quezon signed Executive Order No. 134 teaching of the the multilingual policy 1975 was issued
national language which it promoted. by the Board In 1996, Commission on Higher
declaring Tagalog as basis of the national
became part of The use of no less prescribing the Education issued a CHED Memorandum
language.
the curriculum at than four languages offering of Order (CMO) No. 59 titled New General
Timeline of Language Curriculum in the (English, Pilipino, English and Education Curriculum (GEC) which was
all levels. It was
Philippines Spanish and the Pilipino courses implemented. The minimum
introduced as a
MONE VIRMA GINRY P. GUMAPAC, 4EM vernacular) did not as part of the requirements for this mandatory GEC,
subject in all
Reference: curricula of include 9 units in Filipino, and 9 units in
grades at the prove effective in
Espiritu, C. (2011). Filipino language in the English. For the first time in so many
elementary and educating the Filipino tertiary
curriculum. National Commission for the Culture years, Filipino and English are given
and Arts Retrieved 17 Feb 2015 from high school child. institutions.
levels. equal treatment in the curriculum.
http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-
arts/articles-on-c-n-a/article.php?igm=3&i=216

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