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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Training-Workshop on Trends, Issues, Concerns and Innovations in Language Teaching in Basic Education
The Guro Formation Forum (GFF) is a group of educators with a deep sense of commitment to the advancement of education in this age of globalization and internationalization. Responding to the demands of the changing times, GFF seeks to strengthen and reestablish classroom teaching as still the best venue for learning. The GFF’s thrust is to ensure excellent, competitive and relevant education in the new millennium.
In line with this, GFF will hold a “Training Workshop on Trends, Issues, Concerns and Innovations in Language Teaching for Basic Education”, which will be held on April 13-17, 2009 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. The Training-Workshop’s objectives are:
1. To update teachers/clientele with current trends & innovations, issues and related concerns in language teaching for basic education.
2. To present and provide information on language teaching corresponding to the specific school needs of teachers/clientele (Stand Alone Approach, Multilingual Approach & Content-Based Approach).
3. To formulate and design appropriate teaching innovations and interventions for language teaching.
4. To create and produce instructional materials for language planning and its actual implementation.
The training workshop has two parts. Part I constitutes plenary conference lectures on current trends, issues, challenges, and related concerns in language teaching for basic education. Part II is a four-day training workshop on the different approaches, modules and innovations/interventions in language teaching for basic education.
To register, accomplish the attached registration form and send it to us by fax or email. On site registration fee of Php3,500 covers the following: an individual kit with handouts and workshop materials, a certificate of attendance, and food. You can also send your payment via money order or cheque.
For further information, you can get in touch with the secretariat at:
GFF Secretariat
UP P.O. Box 279
Email addresses and phone numbers:
guroformation@yahoo.com; ciela_sarmiento@yahoo.com,
contact number (02) 757-8941 & (63) 0915-9021337
Santiago B. Villafania, a bilingual Filipino poet who writes in English and in his native language of Pangasinan, is the author of poetry collections Balikas na Caboloan (Voices from Caboloan) published by the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) under its UBOD New Authors Series (2005) and Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles (2007). He has been published in several countries and translated into several languages. Villafania is one of the 11 Outstanding Pangasinenses conferred with the 2010 Asna Award for the Arts and Culture (literature) during the first Agew na Pangasinan and also the 430th Foundation Day of the province on April 2010. He is a member of Philippine PEN. Read more »
"The publication of Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles by Santiago B. Villafania should be a source of rejoicing for readers of regional literatures. This second book by Pangasinan's leading poet today is impressive in both form and substance. Villafania has created 300 sonnets and 50 villanelles in his own language that attempt to reflect the primacy of native culture and return the poet to the central stage of social life." – A Boost to Pangasinan Literaturefrom Breaking Signs by Cirilo F. Bautista (Philippine Panorama, 16 Dec. 2007, pp.25-26)
"Sa kanyang pangalawang aklat na Malagilion, nangahas na naman siya (Villafania) na gumimbal sa pamamagitan ng kanyang Sonnets tan Villanelles upang ilibing sa limot ang aking pag-usisa't pag-urirat kung paano na ang panitikang Pangasinan." – Victor Emmanuel Carmelo Nadera, Jr., Tagapangulo, Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas
"Villafania is not only a visionary poet, he is a linguistic philosopher who codifies the origin of language and culture, dissects the myths and the common beliefs of the people against the urban legends, juxtaposes the literary tradition against the modern influences by dialectically infusing them in his poetic revelation of truth." – Poetic Revelation in Language and Culture by Danny C. Sillada (Manila Bulletin, 12 May 2008, pp. F1-F2)
"Sumusunod si Sonny Villafania sa landas na hinawan ng mga manunulat sa Pangasinan na nauna sa kanya. Sa kanyang paglalakbay, hinahawan din niya ang bagong mga landas na maaaring sundin ng susunod na mga manunulat sa wikang Pangasinan. Subalit hindi lamang para sa mga taga-Pangasinan ang kasalukuyang akda. Ito rin ay panawagan sa mga manunulat sa ibang mga wika sa Pilipinas upang patuloy na pagyamanin ang kanilang panitikan at pagsulat. Kung walang mga lokal na panitikan ay hindi magiging posible ang tunay na panitikang pambansa." – Dr. Ricardo Ma. Nolasco, Tagapangulo, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF).
Photos: Book Launching at the Pearl Manila Hotel, 5 Feb. 2008
"Santiago Villafania's Balikas ed Caboloan certainly has reinvigorated the anlong tradition of Pangasinan that for a long period of time suffered silence from the hands of writers more attuned to English writing. Characteristically anacbanua, Villafania's poetry echoes his predecessors and presages a promising era for young writers in Pangasinan." – Dr. Marot Nelmida-Flores
Six of my poems translated into Arabic by Prof. Abdul-Settar Abdul-Latif (English Dept., College of Education, University of Basrah, Iraq) and have been published in TEXT - the Cultural Monthly Journal, Issue No.13
Translations of Swansong of the sea into Italian by Mario Rigli and into Arabic by Nizar Sartawi
Translations of Erolalia in German, Arabic, Italian, Spanish and Bulgarian language. And here is the 1st version of the poem published in The Sunday Times (Manila Times, 11.23.2003).
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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