Filipino (Tagalog)
Fall 2023
Elementary Filipino (Tagalog) I
Instructor: Lady Aileen Orsal
MTWTh, 9:00-10:15 a.m.
This course is designed to equip learners of the basic skills in listening, reading, writing and speaking in Filipino, the national language of the Philippines. Along with vocabulary and basic grammar to facilitate language learning, this beginner’s course will also include introduction to some concepts relevant to Philippine culture adding context to the linguistic inputs in the discussion. Utilizing a combination of communicative, functional-situational, and task-based instruction, this course will capacitate learners to express themselves in the target language and understand basic texts in familiar settings of family, school, and community. It will also help them participate in conversations relevant to daily lives or simple transactions.
Intermediate Filipino (Tagalog) I
Instructor: Lady Aileen Orsal
MTWTh, 10:30-11:45 a.m.
This course is designed to increase the communicative competency of the learners in Filipino, the national language of the Philippines. This aims to further develop the understanding of the students on the more complex sentence structures along with a range of texts relevant to Philippine culture, traditions, history, and other contemporary topics in the Filipino society. Building up on some basic skills acquired in the previous Filipino language courses or through exposure and experience as in the case of heritage learners, this course equips students in addressing daily needs with the use of the target language through a mix of communicative, content-based, task-based, and other relevant approaches. It also capacitates the students in participating in social transactions and in a variety of communicative situations ensuring that the language skills learned will be used for practical purposes. If an interested student has not yet taken a year of introductory Filipino class, a placement test administered by the instructor is needed before enrolling to ensure that the student meets the qualifications for the intermediate class.
Spring 2024
Elementary Filipino (Tagalog) II
Instructor: Lady Aileen Orsal
TWThF, 9:00-10:15 a.m.
This course is designed to equip learners of the basic skills in listening, reading, writing and speaking in Filipino, the national language of the Philippines. Along with vocabulary and basic grammar to facilitate language learning, this beginner’s course will also include introduction to some concepts relevant to Philippine culture adding context to the linguistic inputs in the discussion. Utilizing a combination of communicative, functional-situational, and task-based instruction, this course will capacitate learners to express themselves in the target language and understand basic texts in familiar settings of family, school, and community. It will also help them participate in conversations relevant to daily lives or simple transactions.
No auditors will be permitted. Enrolled students must take the course for a letter grade.
Intermediate Filipino (Tagalog) II
Instructor: Lady Aileen Orsal
TWThF, 4:30-5:45 p.m.
This course is designed to increase the communicative competency of the learners in Filipino, the national language of the Philippines. This aims to further develop the understanding of the students on the more complex sentence structures along with a range of texts relevant to Philippine culture, traditions, history, and other contemporary topics in the Filipino society. Building up on some basic skills acquired in the previous Filipino language courses or through exposure and experience as in the case of heritage learners, this course equips students in addressing daily needs with the use of the target language through a mix of communicative, content-based, task-based, and other relevant approaches. It also capacitates the students in participating in social transactions and in a variety of communicative situations ensuring that the language skills learned will be used for practical purposes. If an interested student has not yet taken a year of introductory Filipino class, a placement test administered by the instructor is needed before enrolling to ensure that the student meets the qualifications for the intermediate class.
No auditors will be permitted. Enrolled students must take the course for a letter grade.
Advanced Filipino (Tagalog)
Instructor: Lady Aileen Orsal
TWThF, 6:00-7:00 p.m.
This course is designed to enhance the communicative competence of the students in the advanced level. Aside from being equipped to understand longer texts in the target language, this course will also help students to sustain conversations in Filipino and demonstrate ability to write reports and reviews on topics in various formats. They will be guided in making formal and informal presentations using appropriate language that is considered culturally acceptable in the target culture. At the end of the course, the students are expected to be able to not only perform communicative tasks with fluency but also to express opinions on a variety of social issues relevant to Philippine context and the global Filipino perspective. If a student has not yet taken Filipino language classes in the previous semesters but is exposed and has knowledge of the language as in the case of heritage learners, a placement test administered by the instructor is needed before enrolling to ensure that the student meets the qualifications for the advanced class.
No auditors will be permitted. Enrolled students must take the course for a letter grade.