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NOT many are aware that the education policy of the American Occupation that made many Filipinos speakers of English was only solidified in 1925 after the findings of the Board of Education Survey chairman Paul Monroe’s report, “A Survey of the Educational System of the Philippine Islands,” or simply the Monroe Report, were reported to the Philippine Senate.
” Also, because most teachers of English were Filipinos, the pronunciation was already very “Malay” and not one of the tested spoken American English. “Like teacher, like pupil, fairly describes the results of oral language instruction.” The report stated: “In primary school they develop marked ability to comprehend spoken English, sufficient we believe to carry them through the ordinary language necessities of this generation of adult life in the Philippines.
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