Expanding Vocabulary.docx

As a Filipino citizen we give more importance on how we improve our English vocabulary, communicating with other kind of people dealing with any higher position, different status of person we deal in our daily living. Base on my research we most know that languages are passport to another world. Infacts the Philippines is the third largest English speaking country in the world, another one Philippines is recognized globally as one of the largest Englishspeaking Nations, with majority of its populations having at least some degree of fluency in the language. English has always been one of the country’s official languages and spoke by more than 14 million Filipinos, it is the language of commerce and low, as well as the primary medium institution in education, we also Filipino countryman has a long relationship with the English language that began at the turn of the 20th century with American occupation of the country following those Spanish-American war and the subsequent Philippine-American war, more than 100 years later, the Philippines is officially a bilingual nation under the country’s constitutional, which distinguishes Filipino as the national language and both Filipino and English as official languages for communication and instruction. Filipino a standardized form of the Tagalog language, just one of more than 150 recognize languages and dialects spoken in homes, across the Philippines. The status of English in the Philippines is unique among other country’s, is the only country in the region to mandate of fully Bilingual public education for all children beginning in grade school, under official policy, both Filipino and English are taught as language subjects in public schools, with English being the sole language used in science, mathematics and technology courses. Although its official status has been in place for nearby 30 years, English has yet to reach into all corners of the country. It has, however, made substantial gains in the population. According to the 2000 census of population and housing Conducted by the Philippines national statistics office the most recent source of national language statistics, 63.7% of Filipinos over the age of 5 reported an ability to speak English. In comparison, 96.4% of Filipinos reported speaking tagalong. English pre valence in many of the more developed Administrative regions of the Philippines, especially those covering the northern island of Luzon, was even higher, rising above 70%. In the case of metropolitan Manila, the capital of the Philippines English-speaking ability was reported by nearly 82%of residents. On the other hand, relatively undeveloped rural areas of the country generally showed worse results, due largely to inadequate educational infrastructure. Expanding the English language can also give more benefits to our country most especially to our tourism here in the Philippines to booming. I read some articles about that our country Philippines tourism is booming. In the years from 2004 to 2014,the annual number of foreign tourists visiting our country more than double from 2.3 million to over 4.8 million. In 2014,four of the top 10 nationalities visiting the Philippines were from English speaking countries the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.