Abstract: This study is a modified replication of the series of old studies conducted by Tucker (1968), Luzares and Bautista (1971), and Aglaua and Aliponga (1998) conducted in prominent universities in Manila. The Match-Guised Technique was utilized to gather authentic data which otherwise would not be obtained thru direct attitude questionnaire. It made use of the same semantic-differential bipolar adjective scales/evaluation sheet and reading script used in the previous studies. The subjects were introduced to judging personalities not from the persons’ physical appearance but from their voices. Using a series of 12 item semantic–differential bipolar adjective scales, they evaluated the voice owners using the same rating scale with eight points from the positive to the negative end. It tried to determine the level of prestige of English and Tagalog and compare the findings with the 20th century studies. The independent variables in each analysis were the 30 judges who are all Tagalogs and the four voice Groups--American English (Am-E), American Tagalog (Am-Tag), Filipino English (Fil-E) and Filipino Tagalog (Fil-Tag). The findings revealed that graduating Education students perceived English to be more prestigious than Filipino as sustained by the high ratings they gave to American and Filipino speakers of English; however, they rated the Filipino speakers of English a little more favorably than their American counterparts. The results are parallel with the 1968 and 1971 findings; nevertheless, different from the 1998 finding that the two official languages shared the same level of prestige.
Keywords: Language prestige, attitude, Match-guise Technique, semantic-differential bipolar adjective scales.
Title: Would be Teachers’ Attitude towards the Philippines’ Official Languages
Author: Nimfa G. Dimaculangan, Mario C. Pasion
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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