Wilfrido V. Villacorta's research while affiliated with La Salle University and other places
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... Moreover, it is also clear that the framers of the Philippine Constitution -in the words of Commissioner Ponciano Bennagen -envisions a future where the national language "already becomes the primary language with the regional language as auxiliary and English as a subject, until such time again as the capabilities of the regions or the schools change." Strengthening the Filipino language is an imperative within the country's neocolonial, multilingual, and multicultural context for which developing, nurturing, and solidifying a strong national language for social cohesion at the very least, and to achieve the country's cultural, economic, and political emancipation at best, is necessary (Constantino, 1970;Villacorta, 1991;Atienza, 1998;Maceda, c.2003;Flores, 2015;Guillermo, 2016;San Juan, 2020c). The progressive potentials of a national language for social cohesion and socio-political emancipation is recently further highlighted by the young lumad's (indigenous people in Mindanao) embrace of Filipino language as a way to "shape nationalist, pro-people, and scientific education" (Dumapit, 2017) that unites and mobilizes the Filipino people for the country's socio-economic transformation. ...
