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    The document discusses the beginnings of the English language in the Philippines from 1898 to 1920. It notes that some Philippine scholars independently studied English even during the Spanish period. When US forces arrived after 1898, a military chaplain and his soldiers began teaching English via direct instruction and found willing students. Schools then systematized English education using both direct instruction and grammar translation. By 1921, the civil service was mostly Filipino, though the US still led the military. Filipino teachers trained by Americans were most responsible for spreading English among Filipinos during this time. Over 200 Filipinos also received scholarships to study in the US, and young writers developed the skills of the first generation and began establishing a distinct Philippine identity and school of writing

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    THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE PHILIPPINES (1898- 1920)

    Even during the Spanish Period, individual Philippine scholars studied English on their own. Jose Rizal
    learned English on his own and in his letters, he urged his sister Saturnina to learn English. Apolinario
    Mabini, initially the brains of the emerging Philippine Republic, prescribed the study of English in
    hissecond level academy (Majul, 1967)

    When the Military Chaplain of General Elwell Otis, W. D. McKinnon (a Catholic priest from California),
    took the initiative soon after 1898 to teach English to the locals, he and his team of soldiers were
    welcomed.

    They taught English via the direct method and found ready and willing pupils (Churchill,2003). Later,
    when the elementary schools were established and a more regular system of teaching English was in
    place, the method was initially the direct method followed by the grammar analysis and translation
    method as used inthe public schools in the United States.

    THE SECOND GENERATION (1920– 1941)

    By 1921, at the end of the administration of the Democrat Francis Burton Harrison as Governor General,
    the civil service of the colony had become completely Filipino except for the military leadership and its
    top echelons, including the Department of Public Instruction.

    The Thomasites who had come to the Philippines in the twenty years from 1901 to 1921 had returned to
    the United States or had chosen to remain in the Philippines as private employees marrying into local
    families (Gonzalez, 2003a)

    The people who spread the Philippine variety of English among Filipinos were Filipino teachers under
    the tutelage of their American mentors.

    In this period, a total of 209 Filipinos were sent as scholars to the United States as pensionados
    (supported fellows) to pursue their college degrees, including some graduate studies in law, medicine,
    and veterinary science.

    This period was likewise the golden age of young writers of English who had grown up and improved on
    the skills of the first generation and saw young writers of the College Folio develop further as English
    teachers and mature in their craft as poets, essayists, and fiction writers.

    The writers in English began to manifest an identity of their own and began to constitute themselves
    into a ‘school’ that would be clearly identifiable once the beginnings of a history of Philippine literature
    in English began to be outlined in the post-war period.

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