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.
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.
LINGUISTICS as an academic field is thriving in the Philippines, but the majority of works here is done under the broad sub-field of applied linguistics. Applied linguistics is the study of language in real-world contexts and the use of language to solve real-world problems. It deals not only with the teaching and learning of languages (applied linguistics is sometimes equated with purely language teaching) but also social problems in relation to language and the use of language in various societal concerns like law, technology and landscapes.