Assistant Professor
MA Education (Educational Technology), University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Creative Writing, University of the Philippines Diliman
Research interests: critical pedagogy, philosophy for children, children’s literature, educational technology
PUBLICATIONS
With Abletis, John. “Possibilities and Challenges in Teaching Democratic Values.” Alipato: A Journal of Basic Education, vol. 15, 2024. https://saliksik.upd.edu.ph/storage/submission/pdf/manuscripts/gCDan8g7lDdFFwvQ6J67ZQDpa9QEAoPqXpuksQjU.pdf
CompuThinkers 1. EduLearn, 2021.
CompuThinkers K. EduLearn, 2021.
With Sheinn Reyes. CompuThinkers 2. EduLearn, 2021.
With Sheinn Reyes. CompuThinkers 3. EduLearn, 2021.
Who’s Better at Playing Hoops? Vibal Group, 2020.
“Secrets in Our Cigarettes.” Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction, edited by Megan Giddings, 2019.
With Ma. Jendell Valin Y. Kirong, et al. EnglishTek 7 Worktext: Philippine Literature in English. 2nd ed., TechFactors, Inc., 2018.
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 30: English for the Professions
Email: pcbiliran@up.edu.ph
Professor
PhD English Studies: Language, University of the Philippines Diliman
MA English, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA English, University of the Philippines Diliman
Research interests: Pragmatics, Language Teaching, Theoretical Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
PUBLICATIONS
With Herda, Rozanah Katrina, et al. “Going beyond the EFL Teachers’ Beliefs on Authentic Assessment: Reframing the Five-Dimensional Approach.” Tamansiswa International Journal of Education and Science, vol. 4, no.1, October 2022, pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.30738/tijes.v4i1.13346
“The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Pedagogy: Benefits, Issues, and Challenges.” Tamansiswa International Journal in Education and Science, vol. 1, no.1, October 2019, pp. 28-35. https://doi.org/10.30738/tijes.v1i1.5444
“Identity and Self-Presentation in Letters of Request Written by College Students.” International Journal of Humanity Studies, vol. 2, no.1, September 2018, pp. 10-21. https://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/IJHS/article/view/1257/1235
“Errors and Corrective Feedback in Writing: Implications to Classroom Practices.” LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, vol. 20, no.2, October 2017, pp. 158-66. https://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/LLT/article/view/743/564
“Q and A: A Pragmatic Analysis of Children’s Responses to Questions.” The 4th Foreign Language and Language Teaching Conference Proceedings, vol. 4, no.1, 2016, pp. 10-20.
“An Analysis of Prepositional Errors of College Students.” Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Conference Proceedings, vol. 2, no.1, March 2013, pp. 97-108.
With Magelende Flores, et.al. Thought and Expression: Academic Writing. C and E Publishing House, 2009.
“Let’s Chat: An Analysis of Some Discourse Features of Synchronous Chat.” Trends and Directions: Proceedings of the 12the English in Southeast Asia International Conference, December 12-14, 2007, Bangkok, Thailand.
“From the Mouths of Babes… and Moms: An Analysis of Mother-Child Interaction: Focus on the Mothers’ Questions.” Humanities Diliman, vol. 3, no.1, January 2007, pp. 1-38. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/29/713
With Magelende Flores, et al. Encounters: Mastering English Through Content. C and E Publishing House, 2006.
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 30: English for the Professions
Eng 100: Study of the English Language
Eng 106: Language Theory and Language Awareness
Eng 116: Structure of English I: Phonetics and Phonology
Eng 117: Structure of English II: Morphology and Syntax
Eng 119: English Discourse
Eng 197: Special Topics
Eng 199: Research
Eng 200: Thesis
Eng 206: The Structure of English
Eng 207: Advanced Semantics
Eng 260: Variation of Native and Non-native English
Eng 261: Critical Survey of Language Theories
Eng 299: Bibliography and Methods of Research
Eng 300: Master’s thesis
Eng 305: Seminar: Language and Cognition
Eng 310: Seminar: English Language and Culture
Eng 316: Seminar: Language Theories
Eng 317: Seminar: Pragmatics
Eng 399:Research
Eng 400: PhD Dissertation
Email: macastro1@up.edu.ph
Assistant Professor
MA English Studies: Language, University of the Philippines Diliman
BFA Creative Writing, Ateneo de Manila University
Research interests: critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics
PUBLICATIONS
“The War Against COVID: A Critical Discourse Analysis of former President Duterte’s Speeches during the 2020 Pandemic in the Philippines.” Humanities Diliman (January-June 2026), vol. 23, no. 1, 2026, pp. 141-167. https://saliksik.upd.edu.ph/storage/submission/pdf/manuscripts/6I6BbUCll4pXGzUqVSqCa9RQwVF6ZEuI3kIWdumB.pdf
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 30: English for the Professions
Eng 100: Study of the English Language
Eng 102: Development of the English language
Eng 106: Language Theory and Acquisition
Eng 261: Critical Survey of Language Theories
Email: erdomingo1@up.edu.ph
Assistant Professor
PhD English Language and Linguistics, National University of Singapore
MA English Studies: Language, University of the Philippines-Diliman
BA Literature, De La Salle University-Manila
Research interests: language, gender, and sexuality, sociocultural linguistics, multimodality, stance, indexicality,
PUBLICATIONS
“Indexical (Mis)recognition and Ideologies of Pride in the Philippines.” Gender and Language, forthcoming.
With Leif Andrew Garinto. “Civic Stanning and the Semiotics of K-Pop Fan Activism in the Philippines.” Signs and Society, vol. 14, no. 2, 2026, pp. 151–70, https://doi.org/10.1017/sas.2025.10041.
With Lim, Jonna Marie. “Integrating ChatGPT into Teacher Feedback: Practical Insights for L2 Writing Instruction.” TESL-EJ, vol. 29, no. 3, 2025, https://doi.org/10.55593/ej.29115int.
With Jonna Marie A. Lim. “Androcentrism in Learning Modules and English Language Education in the Philippines: Rethinking Texts and Teachers’ Perceptions and Practices.” The Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in the Philippines, edited by Julius C. Martinez and Isabel Pefianco Martin, Routledge, 2025, pp. 149–61.
With Jocelyn Navera and Paolo Nino Valdez. “Interrogating Beliefs About Criticality in Teaching Japanese Learners: The Case of Filipino Teachers of English.” Critical Pedagogies in English Language Teaching and Learning in South East Asia, edited by Joanna Joseph Jeyaraj, Tamas Kiss, and David D. Perrodin, Penerbit Universti Sains Malaysa, 2025, pp. 22-40.
“Landscaping Gender, Sexuality, and Hope in the 2022 Philippine Presidential Elections.” Linguistic Landscape, vol. 10, no. 4, 2024, pp. 346–69, https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.24006.go.
“Unequal Englishes and Stancetaking in Michelle Chong’s Parodic Performances of Filipino Domestic Workers in Singapore.” Investigating Unequal Englishes: Understanding, Researching and Analysing Inequalities of the Englishes of the World, edited by Ruanni Tupas, Routledge, 2024, pp. 43–58.
With Rowlett, Benedict J. L.. “‘The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk Tuk Race’: Mobility and Carnival Praxis in the Semiotic Landscape of Phnom Penh Pride.” Social Semiotics, vol. 34, no. 3, 2024, pp. 430–48.
With Starr, Rebecca Lurie and Vincent Pak. “‘Keep Calm, Stay Safe, and Drink Bubble Tea’: Commodifying the Crisis of COVID-19 in Singapore Advertising.” Language in Society, vol. 51, no. 2, 2022, pp. 333–59.
With Starr, Rebecca Lurie and Tianxiao Wang. “Sexuality vs. Sensuality: The Multimodal Construction of Affective Stance in Chinese ASMR Performances.” Journal of Sociolinguistics, vol. 24, no. 4, 2020, pp. 492–513.
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 30: English for the Professions
Eng 100: Study of the English Language
Eng 104: Levels of English (Introduction to Sociolinguistics)
Eng 199: Research (English Studies: Language)
Eng 206: Structure of English
Eng 299: Bibliography and Methods of Research
Eng 315: Semiotics
Eng 320: Discourse and the Media
Email: cggo@up.edu.ph
Assistant Professor
GEMMA MA in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of York and Utrecht University
BA English Studies: Language, University of the Philippines Diliman
Research interests: critical discourse research on metaphor, comics, and migration with a focus on gender and vulnerability
PUBLICATIONS
“Desire Lines: Filipina Transwomen and Black Girls’ Wayward Paths in the Imperial City.” Trans—Revue de literature generale et comparee, vol. 29, 2024, https://doi.org/10.4000/trans.9035
With Chua Manansala, Ana Micaela. “Courting the Gaze, Romancing the Margins: Queer Re-Orientation in Emiliana Kampilan’s Komix.” Review of Women’s Studies, vol. 30, 2020, pp. 107–48. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mjIDDrpyzkepbTMxV72ybT5GOwhpHcTf
With Tiongson, Marella Therese, et al. “Exploring Conceptual Metaphor Analysis as a Critical Literacy Strategy in the Philippines.” Philippine Humanities Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 2020, pp. 29–43. https://saliksik.upd.edu.ph/storage/submission/pdf/manuscripts/PUvs0oU0Z9pSGj8eTTZGxWTKJqpJttKlJ8EqmxI1.pdf
“Metaphors of the Movement: The “woman” in Speeches and Addresses by Women’s Groups in the Philippines in the 1980s.” Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, vol. 18, no. 2, 2019, pp. 59–82. https://saliksik.upd.edu.ph/storage/submission/pdf/manuscripts/LT7IwMOGtLhPxsGNqtYuMBmTzjBrauhZtpldk7kj.pdf
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing As Thinking
Eng 30: English for the Professions
Eng 100: Study of the English Language
Eng 104: Levels of English Language Use
Eng 118: English Semantics
Email: jbjolo@up.edu.ph
Assistant Professor
MA English Studies: Language, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA English Studies: Language, University of the Philippines Diliman
Research interests: Language planning and policy, sociology of language, the history of English in the Philippines, and linguistic landscapes
PUBLICATIONS
“‘We may speak bamboo English, but it is still English’: The Politics of Language, Coloniality, and Imperial Amnesia in the 1986 Philippine Constitutional Commission.” Current Issues in Language Planning, vol. 27, no. 3, 2026, pp. 346-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2025.2481345
“‘They Almost Equal American Children’: Epistemic Exclusion and the Colonial Logic of Correct English in the American Imperial Imaginary.” Journal of Language, Identity & Education, vol. 25, no. 5, 2026, pp. 1975-1989. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2025.2580452b
Salonga, Aileen Olimba, et al. (co-author). “Unnamed decolonialities: Some thoughts on decoloniality and (English) language scholarship in the Philippines.” International journal of the sociology of language, vol. 2025, no. 296, 2025, pp. 57-75. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2025-0105
“Linguistic landscape study in the Philippines: themes, trends and trajectories.” South East Asia Research, vol. 33, no. 3, 2025, pp. 331-348. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2025.2531990
Auxtero , Sean Virgil J. (co-author). “Legalities of language use in linguistic landscaping: Examining English linguistic imperialism in the Philippines.” Language Problems and Language Planning, vol. 48, no. 1, 2024, pp. 75-102. https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.24006.man
“Language politics and prestige in The Walled City: an exploratory study of the linguistic landscape of Intramuros, Manila.” Multimodal Communication, vol. 13, no. 3, 2024, pp. 311-333. https://doi.org/10.1515/mc-2024-0015
“Domain dichotomy and sociolinguistic inequality in Philippine museum spaces: Evidence from the linguistic landscape.” Linguistic Landscape, vol. 10, no. 3, 2024, pp. 223-252. https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.23055.man
“The communicative functions of epitaphs in the linguistic landscape of Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery), Philippines.” Mortality, vol. 29, no. 4, 2024, pp. 921-958. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2268539
“Of politics and the pandemic: Communicating weak governance and pandemic response through multimodal metaphors and metonymies in Philippine editorial cartoons.” Philippine Journal of Linguistics, vol. 55, 2024, pp. 27-40. https://www.pjl-phil.com/_files/ugd/9b08c1_4a73b995f31a46e7b17f34e4c233604a.pdf
“(De-)Monstering COVID-19: A Diachronic study of covid-19 virus multimodal metaphors in Philippine editorial cartoons, 2019-2022.” Multimodal Communication, vol. 12, no. 3, 2023, pp. 207-222. https://doi.org/10.1515/mc-2023-0015
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng 13: Writing As Thinking
Eng 30: English for the Professions
Email: nlmanalastas@up.edu.ph
Professor
PhD in English Language, National University of Singapore
MA in English, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
BA in English Studies: Language, University of the Philippines Diliman
Research interests: Discourse, affect, and agency studies, language and gender research, politics of Englishes
PUBLICATIONS
“Empowerment Narratives and Sticky Affects: The Workings of Affective Capitalism in Philippine Call Centers.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 2022, issue 276, 2022, pp. 117-143, https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2021-0096.
Tarrayo, Veronico (co-author). “Queering English Language Teaching: Insights from Teachers in a Philippine State University”. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, vol. 20, no. 4, 2023, pp. 360-385. Taylor & Francis Online, https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2022.2112532.
“We Serve the World: Everyday Nationalism and English in the Philippine Offshore Call Centers.” Borders in Service: Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centers, edited by Kiran Mirchandani and Winifred R. Poster, University of Toronto Press, 2016, pp. 121-151.
Tupas, Ruanni (co-author). “Unequal Englishes in the Philippines.” Journal of Sociolinguistics, vol. 20, no. 3, 2016, pp. 367-381. Wiley Online Library, https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12185.
“Performing Gayness and English in an Offshore Call Center Industry.” Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today, edited by Ruanni Tupas, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015, pp. 130-142.
“The Gendered Spaces of Globalization.” Review of Women’s Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1-24.
“THE PERFECT WOMAN: Gendered Texts and High Technology in the Philippines.” (Re)making Society: The Politics of Language, Discourse, and Identity in the Philippines, edited by Ruanni Tupas, University of the Philippines Press, 2007, pp. 141-168.
“Representing Men’s and Women’s Speech: A Linguistic Analysis of Nick Joaquin’s The Summer Solstice.” Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, vol. 9, no. 1, 2006, pp. 30-44. https://saliksik.upd.edu.ph/storage/submission/pdf/manuscripts/qTUDISdK68NQK71NzyFI0GkEDUyIat7QqAB677QR.pdf
“Deeper, Wider Hungers: Eating Disorders and Colonial Struggle.” Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, vol 7, no. 1, 2004, pp. 89-109.
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 30: English for the Professions
Eng 100: Study of the English Language
Eng 106: Language Theory and Language Awareness
Eng 119: English Discourse
Eng 157: English for the Professions
Eng 158: Registers of English
Eng 191: Approaches to a College English Program
Eng 197: Special Topics
Eng 199: Research
Eng 200: Undergraduate Thesis
Eng 208: Discourse Analysis
Eng 260: Variations of Native and Non-Native English
Eng 262: The Study of Rhetoric
Eng 290: Sociolinguistics and Literature
Eng 295: Colloquium: Contemporary Issues and Problems in Language and Literature in the Philippine Setting
Eng 299: Bibliography and Methods of Research
Eng 300: Master’s Thesis
Eng 310: Seminar: English Language and Culture
Eng 311: Seminar: Language and Gender
Eng 315: Seminar: Semiotics
Eng 356: Seminar: Rhetorical Theory
Eng 399: Research
Eng 400: PhD Dissertation
Email: aosalonga@up.edu.ph
Assistant Professor
MA Applied Linguistics, University College London
AB Communication, Minor in Education, Ateneo de Manila University
Research interests: Critical applied linguistics, language policies in education, critical discourse analysis, politics of languages
PUBLICATIONS
“The Unfreedom of Philippine English and English Language Education from Global Neoliberal Capitalism.” The Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in the Philippines, 2025, pp. 112–124.
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 30: English for the Professions
Email: rmsanchez6@up.edu.ph
Assistant Professor
MA in Education (Reading Education), University of the Philippines Diliman
BA English Studies (Language), University of the Philippines Diliman
Research interests: higher education literacy, reading and writing instruction, second language teaching, developmental reading and writing programs, reading intervention
PUBLICATIONS
With Portia Padilla. “Thematic Directed Reading Lessons and Listening Comprehension among Filipino Struggling Readers in a Community-Based Program.” Alipato: A Journal of Basic Education, vol. 13, 2022, pp. 85–106. https://saliksik.upd.edu.ph/storage/submission/pdf/manuscripts/2ix7DxjwTexZx2LRBxrFDftZsoZPa0STfTUpMuhj.pdf
With Cristina Saulo. EnglishTek 8 Worktext: African and Asian Literature. 4th ed., TechFactors, Inc., 2020.
With Cristina Saulo, et al. EnglishTek 4: Language. 3rd ed., TechFactors, Inc., 2016.
With Eris Heidi Ramos, et al. EnglishTek 2: Language. 3rd ed., TechFactors, Inc., 2016.
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 100: Study of the English Language
Eng 104: Levels of English Language Use
Eng 117: Structure of English II: Morphology and Syntax
Email: jvsandicho@up.edu.ph
Assistant Professor
MA English Studies: Language, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA English Studies: Language, University of the Philippines Diliman
Research interests: Unequal Englishes; multilingualism, ideologies, and language inequalities; critical discourse analysis, and critical language pedagogy
PUBLICATIONS
“Interrogating Teacher Ideology in ‘How, how the Carabao: Tales of Teaching English in the Philippines.’” The Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in the Philippines, edited by Julius Martinez and Isabel Pefianco Martin. (2025). DOI: 10.4324/9781032621395-21
With Ruanni Tupas (co-author). “Decolonial Studies on Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education.” Research in Language Policy and Management, edited by Joseph Lo Bianco and Adrian Lundberg, Bloomsbury Publishing (forthcoming)
“Hashtag blessed: Negotiating Identity Positions.” Philippine Humanities Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 2020, pp. 59-69, https://saliksik.upd.edu.ph/storage/submission/pdf/manuscripts/S13Y5EodcJZUcg4AGJWPKh4pyC6SBThGdRvqxCsZ.pdf
“#blessed and the fancy self: An exploratory study of the different ‘selves’ constructed in Facebook posts.” Journal of English and Comparative Literature, vol. 18, no. 2, 2019, pp. 128-144, https://saliksik.upd.edu.ph/storage/submission/pdf/manuscripts/45vk0rF5qQ48ewYy1swZ2N3thHFs8osjtfF8IKgr.pdf
With Marikit Tara A. Uychoco (co-author). English for Academic and Professional Purposes. Quezon City, Rex Bookstore, Inc. 2016.
“We write, teacher marks: Describing the lexical innovations of Filipino learners of English through the English teachers’ lens.” Philippine Journal for Language Teaching, Vol. 52, 2012.
With Mario Mendez (co-author). English Tek 6 Premium English Learning for Children Language. Quezon City, TechFactors Inc. 2012.
With Mario Mendez (co-author). English Tek 6 Premium English Learning for Children: Reading. Philippines, TechFactors Inc. 2012.
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 30: English for the Professions
Eng 100: Study of the English Language
Eng 104: Levels of English Language Use
Eng 106: Language Theory and Language Awareness
Eng 118: English Semantics
Eng 119: English Discourse
Eng 158: Registers of English
Eng 207: Advanced Semantics
Eng 260: Variations of Native and Non-native English
Eng 261: Critical Survey of Language Theories
Email: gmsaqueton@up.edu.ph