Patricia B. Licuanan, Ph.D.
President, Miriam College

CEO Forum on English
Philippine Business for Education (PBEd)
Asian Institute of Management
January 24, 2007

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I have been asked to speak on “Language and Learning” which is a very basic and broad area of concern for a psychologist and educator. But in the light of the focus of this CEO Forum on English and present company, the sub-text is much more specific i.e. English as medium of instruction to improve the quality of English in the Philippines. So let us, to use an English language expression, “cut to the chase”.

House Bill 4701 on “Strengthening and Enhancing the Use of English as the medium of Instruction in Philippine Schools” or the Gullas Bill with Cebu First District Representative Eduardo Gullas as principal author, has been passed in the House of Representatives and is expected to be passed soon in the Senate. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has certified this bill as urgent. I personally found these developments alarming and expected much sound and fury from the educational community and other sectors. This did not exactly happen. Instead there were initial cheers of approval from the business community which had long deplored the deterioration of English in the country and the declining competitiveness of the Filipino and the Philippines in the global market and saw this bill as a step in the right direction.

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