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Assistant Professor

MA English Studies; Language, 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.

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,

WithMagelende 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: Introduction to English Language
Eng 106: Language Theory and Language Awareness
Eng 116: Phonetics and Phonology
Eng 117: Morphology and Syntax
Eng 119: English Discourse
Eng 197: Special Topics
Eng 199: Research
Eng 200: Thesis
Eng 206: The Structure of the English Language
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: Language and Cognition
Eng 310: Language and Theory
Eng 316: Language Theories
Eng 317: Pragmatics
Eng 399: Methods of Research
Eng 400: Dissertation

Email: macastro1@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA English Studies: Language, 2022, University of the Philippines Diliman
BFA Creative Writing, 2018, Ateneo de Manila University

Assistant Professor

GEMMA MA in Women’s and Gender Studies, 2021, University of York and Utrecht University
BA English Studies: Language, 2015, 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://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/phr/article/view/7473

“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://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/jescl/article/view/6904/5991

Professor

PhD in English Language, 2010, National University of Singapore
MA in English, 2001, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
BA in English Studies: Language, 1995, 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, http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/jescl/issue/current/showToc

“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: English Language and Culture
Eng 311: Language and Gender
Eng 315: Semiotics
Eng 356: Rhetorical Theory
Eng 399: Research
Eng 400: PhD Dissertation

Email: aosalonga@up.edu.ph

Instructor

AB Communication, Minor in Education, 2017, Ateneo de Manila University 

Research interests: Critical applied linguistics, language policies in education, critical discourse analysis, politics of languages

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), 2009, 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. journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/ali/article/view/8923 

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, 2016, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA English Studies: Language, 2004, 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. (forthcoming).

 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://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/phr/article/view/7475.

“#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://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/jescl/article/view/6907.  

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