Decolonizing

Teaching of Reading
Integrating Award Winning Filipino Writers in the
Realms of Reading
Alonzo Toribio Abano
Masters of Arts in English as a Second Language

Michael Kevin Menor Garcia

Masters in English Language Studies
  Significance of the
Study
 Statement of the
Problem
Presentation  Presentation and
Main Points Analysis of Data
 Conclusion
 Recommendation
“The most essential and fundamental aspect
of culture is the study of literature, since this
is an education in how to picture and
understand human situations.”
~ Iris Murdoch
 Significance of the
Study
The researchers believe that it is timely to
incorporate award winning literary authors to
explicate our culture to promote socio-cultural
awareness and intercultural studies among the
ethnic groups in our society.
Decolonizing Teaching of
Reading: Integrating the
Award-Winning Filipino
Writers in the Realms of The relevance of literary texts to the lives of the students has
Reading been long recognized by educators as an ideal literary
pedagogy. Literature and Cultural studies help us travel across
time for better grasp of our culture in the manuscript written.
 Statement of the
Problem
SOP 1: What are the Filipino Values that are depicted
on the selected Award-winning Filipino Literary pieces
through Context Analysis?

SOP 2: What are the different teaching reading

strategies to promote intercultural and sociocultural
learning among the College students in the Philippine
Decolonizing Teaching of context?
Reading: Integrating the
Award-Winning Filipino SOP 3: How could the 'Awards' of the Filipino writers
Writers in the Realms of
affect the disposition of the students in the realms of
Reading
Reading?
 Presentation and
Analysis
Table 1. Filipino Cultural Values in the Award-Winning Filipino
Literary Piece
Award Winning Filipino Authors Literary Piece Filipino Cultural Values

J. Neil Garcia The Conversion  Filipinos’ Love for Family

Dr. Jose Dalisay Jr Killing Time in a Warm Place Courage of the Filipino People

Santiago B. Villafania Sonito Para’d Manangalin Filipinos’ Resiliency

Kamarerua

Rosario Cruz Lucero  The Death of Fray Salvador Filipinos are Religious
Decolonizing Teaching of Montano
Reading: Integrating the Neni Sta. Romana Cruz Why Piña has a hundred Eyes Filipino mother’s love is
Award-Winning Filipino exceptional 
Writers in the Realms of Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo Book of Dreams  Filipinos have indeed a powerful
Reading Fighting Spirit
 Presentation and
Analysis
Table 2. Filipino Socio-cultural and Intercultural Studies through
Teaching Reading Strategies 

Literary Pieces Reading Strategies

Question- Collaborative Contextualized Explicit

Generation Reading processing Reading
strategy

The Conversion  ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Killing Time in a Warm ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Decolonizing Teaching of Place
Reading: Integrating the Sonito Para’d Manangalin ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Award-Winning Filipino Kamarerua
Writers in the Realms of The Death of Fray ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Reading Salvador Montano

Why Piña has a hundred ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Eyes

Book of Dreams  ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
 Presentation and
Analysis
SOP 3. Students’ disposition in the Realms of Decolonizing Teaching
of Reading

1. Too Niche to compare to Learning Western Literature

2. Language used in the literary text are Philippine wide-range

of dialect.  

3. The demand to buy books are burdensome.

Decolonizing Teaching of
Reading: Integrating the 4. Unappealing History of the Philippines
Award-Winning Filipino
Writers in the Realms of
Reading
 Conclusion
Based on the findings, the following conclusions are made by the
researchers to give light on the research queries;

1. There are Filipino Values that are found in the selected literary
piece of the Award Winning Filipino writers that are needed to
be revisited for the upbringing of the research agenda to
decolonize the teaching of reading. 

2. There are four reading strategies used by the researcher in the

Decolonizing Teaching of study of the literary pieces that would emphasize the
Reading: Integrating the intercultural and socio-cultural studies of the Filipino learners. 
Award-Winning Filipino
Writers in the Realms of 3. There are various dispositions found by the researcher in
Reading
teaching reading especially in the field of literature but give light
on this various dilemma. 
 Recommendation
The researchers highly recommends the following useful ideas based on the
findings and conclusions from the integration and decolonization of teaching reading in
the Philippines and these are; 

1. To promote Filipino Cultural Values among the learners of Philippine

Literature through contextual analysis of the selected literary pieces of the Award-
winning Filipino literary writers.

Decolonizing Teaching of
Reading: Integrating the
Award-Winning Filipino
Writers in the Realms of
Reading
2.  To give ample recognition to the Award Winning Filipino literary writers in
the realms of teaching of reading in the Philippines.
3. To promote intercultural and socio-cultural awareness among the different
reading strategies in the teaching of Literature in the Philippines.
4. That the student’s dispositions that are found by the researcher would be taken
into considerations in the teaching of reading in the Philippine Literature context.