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Philippine English in retrospect and prospect
Author(s) -
Martin Isabel Pefianco
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/weng.12367
Subject(s) - gratitude , world englishes , scholarship , honor , english language , debt , sociology , linguistics , political science , history , psychology , social psychology , law , economics , philosophy , finance , computer science , operating system
In this article, I survey studies about English in the Philippines, many of which have been heavily influenced by the world Englishes paradigm. It was Braj Kachru himself who brought world Englishes to the Philippines in 1996, at a conference in Manila. About a hundred wide‐eyed Filipino teachers, who grew up believing that only American English existed, were never the same again. This contribution to a special issue in honor of Braj Kachru is an expression of utang na loob , our debt of gratitude to him for changing the course of English language studies and scholarship in the Philippines.