Dr Romylyn Metila, of ACTRC’s MTB-MLE research team, recently attended the Regional Training Course on Multilingual Education: Policies and Practice, hosted by UNESCO-Bangkok, 20-24 April 2015, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thirty-nine participants from various countries took part in the training, which featured recognized experts in Multilingual Education.
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Members of ACTRC’s MTB-MLE Research team, Dr Romylyn A. Metila and Ms Lea Angela Pradilla, presented two papers at the Fifth Asian Conference on Language Learning (ACLL), hosted by the International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 30 April to 3 May 2015, at the Kobe Art Center in Japan.
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A seminar-lecture titled Multilingualism and Education for All (EFA): A Look into the Global and Local Contexts was held on December 6, 2014 at the Benitez Training Center at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. This event was organized by the Reading, Teaching in the Early Grades, Arts, and Language Education (REGALE) Cluster of the College of Education. It featured consecutive presentations by
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ACTRC researchers, Dr Alan Williams, Dr Romylyn Metila, and Lea Pradilla gave presentations on their work at the recent International Conference-Workshop, Language Culture, Multiculturalism, Multilingual Education and K+12 Curriculum, held at the Main Theater, UP Diliman, from 20 to 22 November, 2014. The conference was a significant event attended by over 1700 academics and teachers with an interest in language
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ACTRC researchers presented five papers at the International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education held at the National Institute of Science and Mathematics Education Development, UP Diliman, 28-30 October 2014. Centre Director Dr Esther Care presented a plenary paper, ‘Perspectives on Assessment,’ in which she focused on a “spirit of inquiry”. She showed how consideration of research results from large
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In a letter published by the Inquirer on 8 September 2014, ACTRC researchers Alan Williams, Romylyn Metila and Lea Pradilla have responded to an article published by the Inquirer on 20 August 2014. The article reported on Phase 1 of the ACTRC research project “Understanding Best Practices in MTB-MLE in the Philippines” in a way that might have led readers
Read moreThe MTB-MLE Team presented a paper entitled Philippine MTB-MLE: A Close Look at Policy-in-Context at the First International Conference on Language, Culture and Communication held at DLSU Dasmarinas last July 10-12, 2014. The paper included some of the initial findings in the Phase 1 of the research project Understanding Best Practices in MTB-MLE in the Philippines.
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Philippine teachers are responding to the introduction of mother tongue based learning in the early years of schooling with a wide array of innovative strategies, according to a scoping study conducted by the Assessment, Curriculum and Technology Research Centre (ACTRC) in the College of Education at the University of the Philippines, Diliman.
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