Legal Bases, National Surveys,

DepEd policies and Experimental

Studies on Language of
Instruction
Aparicio, Sweet Hope
 Learning Outcomes:
• Relate the educational history of language policy
development in the Philippines
• Discuss the reforms to overcome the “foreign language
handicap”
• Analyze the policies, surveys, and studies affecting the
language of instruction
 5 periods of Philippine Education

1 2 3 4 5

Period of
Orientation and Period of the
Organization Period of Period of Period of the
Commonwealth
Japanese Reorganization
with Spanish the Republic
regime
and American
regimes
1. Period of Orientation and Organization with
Spanish and American regimes

Act No. 74
- established a Public Instruction
 2. Period of Commonwealth

- The Filipinization of the educational system

Commonwealth No. 586
- revision of elementary school system
Commonwealth No. 117
 3. Period of the Japanese regime

- the DepEd and Culture was

renamed Department of Education,
Health and Public Welfare
 4. Period of the Republic

Executive Order No. 94

- renamed the Department of Public
Instruction to Department of
Education.
 5. Period of the Reorganization

- mandated in Presidential
Decree No. 1 issued on Sept.
24 1972
 Laws affecting education on 1901

Act No. Act No. Act No.

74 180 122

• establishing a • providing for the • providing for the

Department of Public organization of the
division of the Interior, Commerce, and
Instruction in the Archipelago into Policies of Finance and
Philippine Island School Divisions Justice and of Public
Instruction
The journey on language issues
and debates on the use of the
vernacular, Pilipino or Filipino,
starts here…