network broadcast has been tagalize so
One of the problems facing
Teachers blamed as
English Standards fall in
Philippines
By Michael M. Segundo
Why Learning English is Difficult?
English language speakers sometimes
take for granted the structure and
requirements of the language. English is a
universal language, with this language,
we are enabled to communicated
worldwide. But as a Filipino we have a
hard time to learn the language it is just
because Philippine has multi lingual
country. Fifty percent of the problem in
English grammar are because of changes
in the ending of words because Filipino
do not have words that change their
endings. Another factor that most of the
Foreign shows that the Philippine T.V.
livelihood.
that the young audience was unable educators in the Philippines has been a
cannot speak english. debate on whether to use English as the
medium of instruction in schools, or
The quality of teachers and their Tagalog, which is spoken mostly on the
grasp of English is falling; English northern island of Luzon, so that they can
textbooks are full of errors, and the participate in every lesson, how can you
number of English television channels has
teach if the student cant understand
dropped from four to one. It is a fault of what you been saying? That’s way
publisher that they not check it carefully whenever the outcomes the teacher is
before they publish the book and give it always blame even you do your best to
to Department of Education. The teaching
teach your student.
is limited by the capacity of the teachers
that cited the case of error-riddled
textbooks used in public schools. What
worries me is that while these errors are
very real, why hasn't the department of
education done anything about correcting
the problem?" He said Filipinos today are
exposed to "less and less English as
programmes in the local language now
dominate television"
One more thing in addition that’s
why the teacher is always blaming it is
because they passed the pupils in
elementary even he/she cannot read.
Hopefully Department of Education can
see this problem. Most of the student in
public school has a poor performance it is
because they were focusing in their