Dr. Romylyn A. Metila is currently the Deputy Director and a Senior Research Fellow at the Assessment, Curriculum, and Technology Research Centre (ACTRC). She is also a Professor of Language Education at the College of Education, University of the Philippines-Diliman. She completed her doctoral degree in Education, majoring in Language Education, at the same institution. Dr. Metila has provided technical expertise and policy recommendations to the Department of Education (DepEd) and various institutions on language policy, language curriculum development, instructional materials, and assessment frameworks.
Her research interests encompass code-switching, language teaching methodologies, translanguaging, multilingual education, and language planning and policy. Over the course of her career, she has contributed to several research projects such as: Understanding Best Practices in MTB-MLE in the Philippines (2013-2017), the Muslim Education Review for the Program for Basic Education (PRIME) under DepEd, the Review of Component 1 of the Learning, Equity and Accountability Program Support (LEAPS) Project (2017), which was commissioned by the World Bank Group. Furthermore, she participated in the Baseline Study on Language Match and Teacher Assignment in BARMM (2020) commissioned by Palladium Pathways, Phase 1 of the Senior High School Curriculum Review (2024), the midline performance evaluation of the USAID-funded Advancing Basic Education (ABC+) program, and the Language of Instruction Transition in Education Systems (LITES) study, funded by USAID and jointly implemented by the University of Notre Dame and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). Currently, she leads the ACTRC study, Impact of Schools’ Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) Implementation on Learners’ Assessment Performance.
Dr. Metila has received the following recognitions: teaching excellence awards (2015–2016, 2017–2018), UP International Publication Awards (2016, 2021, 2023, 2024), One UP Faculty Grant Awards for Teaching and Public Service (2019, 2020, 2021), and the UP Diliman Centennial Professorial Chair (2022, 2024, 2025).