The UP Diliman (UPD) Department of Linguistics (DLing) of the UPD College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) recently held a symposium commemorating this year’s International Mother Language Day (IMLD), where multilingual education (MLE) was the focus. Co-organized by the Embassy of Bangladesh in Manila, the symposium was titled Multilingual Education: An Essential Strategy for […]

The strategies to implement a multilingual education (MLE) were central in the presentation of Dina Joanna S. Ocampo, PhD at the UP Diliman (UPD) Department of Linguistics symposium Multilingual Education: An Essential Strategy for Transforming Education, in celebration of International Mother Language Day 2024. A professor at the UPD College of Education whose expertise is […]

The Department of Linguistics (DLingg) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) went all out to pay tribute to Otto Johns Scheerer, its first professor emeritus, with a journal launch and two public lectures. At the Paglulunsad at Paglalayag 2023 on Aug. 18, the department officially launched the latest issue […]

The Department of Linguistics (DLingg) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) has concluded the 15th Philippine Linguistics Congress (15th PLC) on Aug. 25 at the UPD National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED) auditorium. The 15th PLC is an international conference that gathered linguists, historians, researchers on […]

In the northernmost island of Luzon lies the community of Babuyan Claro. It is home to the Ibatans. In her dissertation, The Stratigraphy of a Community: 150 Years of Language Contact and Change in Babuyan Claro, Philippines, Maria Kristina Gallego, PhD said the Ibatans “… emerged from a century and a half of intense social […]