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Researching on Philippine English | The Manila Times

PHILIPPINE English is one of the earliest varieties to ever be investigated. The late Prof. Braj Kachru s first article on Indian English titled The Indianness of Indian English was published in 1965. The first publication on Philippine English is the 1969 book of the late Prof. Teodoro Llamzon titled Standard Filipino English. Professor Kachru s article is not referenced in Professor Llamzon s book, so it seems that Llamzon had not read Kachru s article when Llamzon wrote his.

The beginnings of research on Philippine English

EVEN in the first two decades of American colonization of the Philippines, Filipinos were already teaching English to fellow Filipinos. The late Br. Andrew Gonzalez said that this was the moment when Philippine English was born. True enough, as the American colonial government-commissioned Monroe survey was implemented, they found out that Filipino children learned English quite well and quite fast, but they spoke a different kind of English, different from their American peers. Understandably, for quite some time, it was simply referred to as a different kind of English. It was the late Prof. Teodoro Llamzon, who after studying linguistics in the United States came back to the Philippines (and who eventually became one of the pillars of Philippine linguistics), noticed for himself that Filipinos indeed spoke differently from Americans.