Dr Romylyn Metila and Lea Pradilla visited the University of Melbourne during August for a week-long writing workshop with Dr Alan Williams. The MTB-MLE team has been working to publish results from Phases 1-3 of the study and plan for future research activities.
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The second Stakeholders Forum for the study, Understanding Best Practices in MTB-MLE (Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education) in the Philippines, was held last July 20, 2015 at the Function Room of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at UP Diliman. The event presented the results and findings for the second and third phases of the study to representatives of
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Around 400 students, teachers, education specialists, researchers, and other stakeholders attended a Research Forum organized by the Assessment, Curriculum and Technology Research Centre on July 18, 2015. It was held at the NISMED Auditorium, University of the Philippines Diliman. The event disseminated research findings from studies conducted by the Assessment, Curriculum and Technology Research Centre in the field of education.
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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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