*** By Maria Regina P. Arriero and Pia Tenedero *** Each year, we celebrate Buwan ng Wika or (National) Language Month in the Philippines. Formerly focused only on the Filipino…
Pia TenederoNovember 25, 2024
Multilingual responses are common during the special liturgies of Lent Many people celebrated Easter with chocolate bunny treats and by enjoying the long weekend. But not as many know the…
Pia TenederoApril 12, 2023
It is probably the least intuitive way of describing accountants, but these number-crunchers are, in fact, also language workers. This part of their professional identity is largely hidden for at…
Pia TenederoNovember 17, 2022
An area under "total lockdown" (Image credit: rappler.com) Lockdowns everywhere The lockdown discourse has become ubiquitous, especially in current affairs and social media. In fact, ‘lockdown’ and ‘quarantine’ have been…
Pia TenederoNovember 22, 2021
With Sydney in lock-down again, my team mates farewelled me over Zoom Writing en route to Manila I am onboard Singapore Airlines as I am writing this, flying back to…
Pia TenederoJuly 20, 2021
After 3 years of hard work, today I hit the "submit" button on my PhD thesis Today, I’ve submitted my PhD for examination – a major milestone on my PhD…
Pia TenederoJanuary 31, 2021
https://vimeo.com/440477672 Besides meetings, webinars, and classes, another traditionally face-to-face event organized this year via Zoom is the 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition. This yearly academic contest, which challenges students to explain…
Pia TenederoAugust 20, 2020
Editor’s note: Working from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic has raised new communication challenges for many. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19…
Pia TenederoJuly 5, 2020
English is the mother tongue of the Internet, or so it seems. English is omnipresent in the architecture of this breakthrough technology. You see it in the QWERTY keyboard, domain…
Pia TenederoJune 7, 2018
The national language is the mother tongue of the vast majority of citizens in most European states (Source: Josu Amezaga, MQ Lecture, 22-11-2017) Last week, Professor Josu Amezaga from the…
Pia TenederoNovember 30, 2017
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