Investigating Teachers' Beliefs And Attitudes Toward The Use Of Local Languages In Teaching English In An Ayta Mag-Antsi Community
Date of Award
8-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts major in English Language and Literature Teaching (Option I-Thesis)
First Advisor
Devi Benedicte I. Paez
Abstract
Within a century and a half, Iloilo has undergone economic growth, decline and renaissance that informs much of its figuration in literature and its everyday perception by its inhabitants. Moreover, the simultaneity of historical and cultural layers expresses complex interactions between spacetimes and inhabitants which yield multiple ways of representing, (re-)configuring, and understanding the city that exceed its often linear narrative of progress. These considerations reveal a dynamism ripe for the study of regional urbanity.
Through a geocritical study of nine West Visayan texts from various genres and time periods, I attempt to identify the various identities the city has engendered as I map the forms of its production via lived imagination including my own. I also navigate the spatiotemporal shifts and stratifications of its urban character, paralleling political and socio-cultural changes in the city. This method hopes to draw up a common dialogical space for a variety of urban experiences that potentiate transgressions and dispersals within the very spaces of control. Consequently, Iloilo plays with diverse figurations of ambivalence, hiddenness, and disguise owed to its history of deindustrialization, yielding a delayed time amid the rapid flow of modernity. This delay creates the conceptual space for a reflective rearticulation of the city’s past, present, and future.
Recommended Citation
Lester, Franco M., (2021). Investigating Teachers' Beliefs And Attitudes Toward The Use Of Local Languages In Teaching English In An Ayta Mag-Antsi Community. Archīum.ATENEO.
https://archium.ateneo.edu/theses-dissertations/700
