フィリピンにおける英語使用の現状と将来

抄録

The purpose of this study is to report on the results of the survey covering 121 examinees on their opinions on their language use and language situations conducted in the Philippines in January of 2005, make some comments on them and discuss the future of English and Filipino there. The findings from the survey are: 1) the examinees' English proficiency level is generally high but not many of them use English much in their daily communication, 2) they think that they are in trouble to a certain degree when they cannot use English in the Philippines in the situations related to their careers but they do not in their private lives, 3) they do not think they are in much trouble even when they can use neither Tagalog nor Filipino there in any of the 12 places/situations questioned in this study, 4) more than half of them think that Filipino is the same language as Tagalog and 5) many of them think the official languages in the Philippines ten years from now will be both English and Filipino. In conclusion, this study claims that it should take a long time and be difficult for Filipino to replace English, giving three reasons.