Can You Guess What These Numbers Represent?

Can you guess what these
numbers represent?
• 9,000,000
• 5800
• 6,400,000,000
• 26,800,000
• 4/100
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• 9,000,000 functional illiterates
• 5800 Filipinos are born daily
• $6,400,000,000 BPO investments
• 26,800,000 Filipino youth population
• 4/100 pass call center exams
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Knowledge economy and
assessment reform in ELT
Dr. Sterling M. Plata
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Objectives:
• Discuss global movements

• Explain the role of English language
proficiency (ELP)in the knowledge
economy
• Connect the role of ELP Standards and
the future of the Philippine economy
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It’s a different world now
It wasn’t just the recession; it was the start

of a new economic order….
– The center of gravity shifting to the east
– The population is ageing in developed
economies
– The world is increasingly multi-polar.
Schumacker, 2010)
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Top 10 Workforce Trends
1. A global war
for talent
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2. Talent not
geography
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3. Aging
population in
America and in
Europe
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4. Hispanics and
women will
dominate
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5. Women will be
the new rulers
and workers
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6. Increased
immigration
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7. Hi-tech skilled
employees from a
global pool
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8. Overhaul of
education system
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9. Lower fertility
rate
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10. Lack of
skilled workers
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Knowledge
PILLARS OFeconomy
KBE
“We are entering a new age, an age
of knowledge, in which the key
strategic resource necessary for
prosperity has become knowledge
itself – educated people, their
ideas and innovation, and their
entrepreneurial spirit.”
(Bloch, 1988)
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PILLARS OF KBE
• Knowledge becomes the
key engine of economic
growth.
• Knowledge economy is
one where knowledge is
acquired, created,
disseminated and
applied to enhance
economic development.
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Knowledge Economy skills
• Solution-oriented thinking
• Gathering and researching information
• Team work and collaboration
• Presentation and communication skills
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A ROADMAP TO THE PHILIPPINES’ FUTURE: TOWARDS A
KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY
• Regions must create and

sustain a highly educated
and innovative workforce
and the capacity to
generate and apply new
knowledge, supported
through policies and
investments in developing
human capital,
technological innovation
and entrepreneurial skills.
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DepEd study
• There are gross inconsistencies between means and
ends.
• …There are gross inconsistencies between the kind
of leaner/graduate that the schools desire to produce
and the strategies they employ. For example,
instruction is still predominantly authoritative and
textbook-based, learning is recipient and
reproductive, supervision is commonly prescriptive
and directive, and assessment is basically focused
more on judging rather than improving performance.
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• Bautista, Bernardo, and Ocampo (2008) pointed out that:
• The key competency that should be targeted by all school
systems is subsumed under the expanded definition of functional
literacy. For example, the Organisation for Economic Co-
operation and Development or OECD defines functional literacy
as “the capacity to access, integrate, evaluate and
manage information and knowledge. It provides learners
a window to the world and the linguistic, textual and
symbolic tools to engage with the world as acting and
autonomous individuals interacting with various groups…
on paper, the various DepED and CHED curricular statements
make reference to such goals and aspirations. But what we find
in these national curricula are still isolated bits of knowledge and
skills which are clearly inadequate compared to the expanded
concepts of functional literacy and transformational citizenship
(p.69).
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• The European Chamber of Commerce warned
recently that 75 percent of the country's annual
400,000 college graduates have "sub-standard
English skills".
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Senator Edgardo Angara recently described the
deterioration of the
country's school system
as a "ticking
bomb".
"We have practically squandered our
intellectual
capital," he said at a seminar.
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Secondary education can act as a
bottleneck, constricting the
expansion of educational attainment
and opportunity—or it can open up
pathways for students’ advancement.
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Language Assessment (APEC-
EDNET)
• 1. Language policy
• 2. Language content standards (what
students need to know and do)
• 3. Language performance standards
(areas and levels of performance)
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The role of English proficiency standards
The English Language Curriculum-Singapore

The English Language curriculum in school will help
pupils become independent
lifelong
learners, creative thinkers and
problem solvers who can communicate
effectively in English. Pupils will read widely, learn how
to analyse and evaluate language and the media, and
respond creatively to problems and new
technology.
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2010 Dep Ed Curriculum
• General standard: The learner

understands key concepts and
demonstrates literary and
communicative competence in
the study of different genres of Philippine,
Afro-Asian, British-America, and World
Literature
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The role of English proficiency standards
"The employment of Filipinos overseas will

soon be overtaken by China and India,"
Gullas said, warning that Filipino engineers
in the Middle East risk being dislodged by
Indian and Chinese engineers who not
only speak better English, but analyze and
write reports in English better.
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“It’s the action that’s important. You
have to do the right thing. It may not
be in your power, may not be in your
time that there’ll be any fruit. But
that doesn’t mean you stop doing
the right thing. You may never know
what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing, there will be
no results.” – Gandhi
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Dr. Sterling M. Plata
smplata2000@yahoo.com
Dept. of English and Applied

Linguistics, A1501, DLSU
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• Discuss global movements

It wasn’t just the recession; it was the start

• Regions must create and

The English Language Curriculum-Singapore

• General standard: The learner

"The employment of Filipinos overseas will

Dept. of English and Applied

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