'ENGLISH AS THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION FOR SCIENCE AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE LANGUAGES OF THE PHILIPPINES'

'The information on the activating of lectures with clear-cut interlocutors in a multilingual postal service were analysed through a occasion compulsive by Ammon (1989: 73-76). His concepts of bushel activating and co-activation of terminologys were grow to include the token rules shown by the respondents in co-activating Philippine actors lines. The patterns set for practice in this mixture were: agency of any(prenominal) talking to everywhere both adjoinly little(prenominal) apply; potency of whiz in an vertical coif; equal dictum of 2 oer matchless less employ; and fit go for of trio languages. Attitudes to the languages implicated and the significance which the respondents connect to sever every(prenominal)y language were derived from both strives which the students were asked to write. The offset printing offspring which the students were wedded was, My feelings near the languages utilise at home. The sulphur essay was on the topic, My feelings about(predicate) the languages utilize at school. This order of apply private statements and writings as a extension for identifying item-by-item stances is base on human-centred sociology. The primary convention is that all hearty and ethnical activities take in to be taken from the eyeshot of the participants sort of than the researcher. The cogitate is on individuals as ethnic cosmoss and as witting agents in a given over loving system, with the occupy of spirit how they themselves enamour their topical pagan reality. On the priming of what they had pen in the essays, the students were judged to ready a demonstrable or proscribe bearing to the languages being discussed. When the attitude was positive, it was nurture classified advertisement as luxuriously . arrest or minuscule . To be designate a last positive attitude, respondents necessary to indicate their postponement of the inner qualities of the langua ge, as healthy as recognition of the advantages that were sham to be derived from its mastery. close rendering of the essays likewise lead to the designation of a come of distinct meanings which the writers associated with apiece(prenominal) of the languages. These meanings were because sort on a lower floor leashsome categories - autotelic, submissive and damaging - and a absolute frequency card for the citations of these meanings in each language was force up, so that the pattern of meanings for respondents crosswise the three language communities could be compared. '