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Day One – March 17, 2008
| TIME | EVENTS | ||||
| 8:00 - 5:00 | Registration and Coffee - Campus Center Ballroom Entrance | ||||
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Opening Ceremony | ||||
| Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 | Room 4 | ||
| 9:30 - 12:30 | Workshop 1: Teaching Filipino as Heritage Language (Compton) | Workshop 2: Teaching of Grammar (Zamar) | Workshop 3: Translation (Batnag) | Workshop 4: Assessment for Language Teaching and Learning (Fonacier) | |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | LUNCH | ||||
| 1:30- 3:00 | Plenary 1: Filipino Literature from a Global Perspective: Challenge to the Teacher (Lumbera) | ||||
| Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 | Room 4 | Ballroom | |
| 3:10 - 3:50 | Ang Ebanghelyo Ayon kay Ka Freddie: Filipino as a Medium in Teaching Culture (Domingo, E.) | Integrating Culture in Language Teaching (Ramos) | The Effect of Matrix Approach in the Multicultural Learning of Filipinos through Selected Short Stories (Suguran & Virtudazo) | A Study on the Development of Tagalog Teaching Materials for Children in Japan (Yamoto) | PANEL: The Filipino Heritage Curriculum: A Collaborative Project (Domingo, Paz, Pena & Nacu) |
| 4:00 - 4:40 | Rekindling the Fires of the Ator: The significance and revival of the Ifiallig Ub-Ufok (Arboleda) | Bayanihan Approach in Foreign Language Classroom (Nacu) | A Discourse on the History and Culture behind the Etymologies of Filipino Words (Naval) | Filipino Language, Feminist Community Activism, and Education Materials Development in an Urban Poor Community in Manila, Philippines (Orozco) | |
| 6:00 – 9:00 | Welcome Dinner Reception (Ticket holders only) Campus Center Ballroom |
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Day Two – March 18, 2008
| TIME | EVENTS | |||
| 8:00 - 5:00 | Registration and Coffee - Campus Center Ballroom Entrance | |||
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Plenary 2: Language as a Historical Source (Ocampo) | |||
| Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 | Room 4 | |
| 10:30 - 11:10 | The Filipino Language in the Malaysian Linguistic Space (Jubilado) | The Historic Passage of Assembly Bill 420 and the Filipino Language Movement (FiLM) in California (Castillo) | PANEL: Strategic Spaces - Redefining the language classroom in teaching Filipino |
A Curriculum Unit on Filipino Food (Idos) |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Challenges in Teaching Filipino: A Malaysian Experience (Manueli) | Recent Philippine legislations on language policy: Reflections and perceptions (Delima) | Science Teacher Training Via Radio (Punzalan) | |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Teaching Language and Culture Beyond the Classroom Advanced Filipino Abroad Program (AFAP) Method (Encabo-Alvarez) | Language and Philippine Politics (Yap) | Tagalog-English Code Switching: Research Findings and Their Implications for Teaching Tagalog (Galang) | Filipino Placement Test (Idos & Leonard) |
| 12:50 - 1:50 | LUNCH | |||
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Using Creative Drama Scaffolding Strategies for Tagalog Language Learning (Bernardo) | PANEL: Bayanihan Spirit and Four Poles of Service, Education, Research, and Advocacy Move Public Policy toward Social Justice for All (Cuaresma, Manzano, Colmenares, & Malate) | Distance Education and Filipino Language Instruction (Savella) | Reflections on the teaching, learning and use of Filipino in the Philippine Cordillera (Comom) |
| 2:50 - 3:30 | Globalizing Children’s Literature on the Web and Translation (Yap) | Liwanag at Dilim (Light and Darkness): A collaborative E-Zine for Filipino Language Learners in Five Universities in Southern California (Domingo & Andersson) | Homo Universalis: History of General Education in the Philippines (Salonga) | |
| 3:30 - 4:10 POSTERS (Ballroom) |
POSTER 1: Innovating Filipino Language/Studies through Open & Distance Education (Mangahis) |
POSTER 2: Switching to TBLT: Issues and Problems (Gasmen & Fonacier) |
POSTER 3: The Philippines Linguistic Map (Yap) |
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| 4:30 - 6:30 | INDAYOG NG WIKA: Poetry Reading + Light Merienda |
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Day Two – March 19, 2008
| TIME | EVENTS | |||
| 8:00 - 5:00 | Registration and Coffee - Campus Center Ballroom Entrance | |||
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Plenary 3: EMERGENCY AGENDA FOR THE FILIPINO LANGUAGE (Virgilio Almario) | |||
| Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 | Room 4 | |
| 10:30 - 11:10 | Translation: Agenda for the Nation (Yap) | Developing and Sustaining the Filipino Language Program (Idos) | Grassroots Efforts in Heritage Language Maintenance: Do Filipino Languages Flourish in the Desert of the Phoenix Valley, Arizona (Axel) | Promoting the Use of Filipino Among Overseas Filipino Youth: Issues, Concerns, and Future Policy Direction (Valencia-Cabilao) |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | e-Wika: Philippine Connectivity through Language (Cheng) | Program Development, Administration and Coordination: AFAP Experience (Fortunato) | From a Ripple to a Tsunami: Marshalling Resources and Building a Network to Transform Access to Filipino Language Instruction in California Public Schools (Lyman-Hager) | |
| 12:10 -1:20 | LUNCH | |||
| 1:30 - 3:30 | General Assembly: Filipino as Global Language - Future Directions Focus Groups: (A) Language teaching/materials (B) Language Policy (C) Advocacy and Activism |
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| YOUTH TRACK 1:30- 5:00 |
Hip-Hop (Arenal) |
Story telling (Tanglao-Aguas, Visiting Artist) | Poetry (Barrios, Visiting Artist) | H208 Folk Dance (Torno) |
| 5:00 - 6:00 | Closing Ceremony | |||
| 6:00 - 8:00 | MERIENDA CENA/ Youth Track Presentation | |||