Solon wants basic education to include instruction in foreign languages.
According to a resolution submitted by House of Representatives Minority Leader Marcelino Libanan, national hero Jose P. Rizal, who acquired a passion for learning other languages, might serve as an example for Filipino children.
The Department of Education (DepEd), which is now reviewing the Kโ12 program, is urged by Libanan’s House Resolution No. 910 to include foreign language courses other than English in the school curriculum.
The Filipino educational system has a long history of encouraging students to emulate and aim to be like Rizal. As Rizal did, we should promote their study of foreign languages, the 4Ps Party-list delegate suggested in a news release on Sunday.
Rizal learned Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, and Swedish as a result of his passion for other languages.
In her 2023 Basic Education Report, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte stated that DepEd intended to review and improve the Kโ12 program with the goal of creating lifelong learners who are competent and job-ready.
Libanan stated in his resolution that “the whole world has become a global village with multilingual labor markets, thus creating a strong demand for workers with foreign language skills.”
Exposing young students to other languages, according to him, “will vastly improve their employability in the global labor markets of the 21st century.”
Global firms with headquarters in the three largest economies in the worldโthe United States, China, and Japanโhave a history of favoring the hiring of personnel who can speak a second foreign language in addition to English, according to Libanan.
According to the Department of Migrant Workers, the Philippines sent 2,150,000 workers, or 5,890 each day, to foreign labor markets in 2019, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since then, fewer than one million Filipino laborers are sent abroad each year.
Despite the slowdown in deployments, the World Bank projects that the Philippines would receive up to USD38 billion (PHP2.12 billion) in cash remittances across all channels in 2022, making it the fourth-largest beneficiary of remittances from foreign workers worldwide, behind China, India, and Mexico.
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