With the award, Bernardo is slated to deliver a research-based lecture in February 2025. A scholar on World Englishes, particularly Philippine English and its pedagogy, Bernardo will discourse about: “Teaching, Teaching about, and Teaching in World Englishes: Twenty-First Century Perspectives for Diversity, Inclusivity, and Sustainability.”

Among Bernardo’s recent works are entitled “Teaching Philippine English through schoolscapes” (2024), “Philippine English and Global Englishes-inspired grammar teaching” (2024), and “Knowledge construction in World Englishes” (2021, with Ruanni Tupas).

Bernardo earned his doctoral degree in English Language Studies from the UST Graduate School, where he later served as Faculty Secretary. He is an academic researcher of the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education. Bernardo also served as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters.

Established in 1996, the Distinguished Professorial Chair honors former Department of Education, Culture, and Sports (now the Department of Education) Secretary and former De La Salle University President Br. Andrew Gonzalez, FSC. According to the Linguistic Society of the Philippines, the honor is meant to remember Br. Gonzalez as “an intellectual giant, a distinguished linguist, teacher, scholar, humanist, writer, administrator, a builder of persons and institutions, a man of vision and mission, a doer, a Christian brother, and a Filipino patriot.”

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The speakers, who will share their teaching expertise during this international webinar, will be Faculty of Arts and Letters Assistant Dean Assoc. Prof. Alejandro S. Bernardo, PhD; Atty. Selenne Anne S. Leynes, MA of the UST Department of English; Dr. Hendra Tedjasuksmana; M.N. Siti Mina Tama, PhD; and Mr. Takim Andriono, PhD.

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Using the history of Philippines Applied Linguistics and ELT Research in the 20th century as his backdrop, Bernardo cited noted linguists who have contributed immensely to the field. Pointing to bright prospects for sustained research interest in the field, Bernardo underscored that even before the Second World War, there were already researches being done, with the context of the decade influencing what studies investigated.

Bernardo also highlighted the research area of Philippine languages, many of which remain undocumented, with language researchers’ works usually focused on “language documentation and revitalization.” The first twenty years of the new millennium particularly saw a surge in Applied Linguistics research, with emphasis on World Englishes and Philippine English. In the last five years, forensic linguistics also became an area of research in the country.

With the strict limitations on movement and physical contact brought about by COVID-19, Bernardo opined that “research…about brick and mortar teaching and learning education would likely be set aside, at least temporarily,” to be replaced by language phenomena found online and those that are relevant to the COVID-19. Thus, for the post-pandemic era, Bernardo outlined several areas of study that will analyze how the world experienced and coped with COVID-19 from the perspective of applied linguistics. Among his suggested research areas are “The Language of Pandemic,” “COVID-19 Product Warnings,” “Racism and Discrimination” during the pandemic, as well as “Multilingual Standards in Public Health and Medical Research.” Meanwhile, for ELT, Bernardo suggested researches on “Digital Literacy,” “Distance Language Education,” “Emergency Remote Language Learning,” and “Course Persistence in Online Language Classes,” among others.

Moving forward, Bernardo, the incumbent President of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines, stressed the importance of “theorizing about developing pandemic-resistant language teaching,” as manifested in how language instruction continued despite the global pandemic. Bernardo also invited language educators to consider how ELT can thrive when made to switch from online to offline and vice versa should a public health concern such as a pandemic strike again. To realize this, Bernardo called for greater collaboration among researchers, funding agencies, government agencies, professional organizations, and institutions of learning and research.

Bernardo is the Assistant Dean of the and is a faculty member of the . He is also affiliated with the .

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“A Look into the Linguistic Landscape of Manila Chinatown: The Role of Language and Language Ideologies,” the paper Bernardo presented on behalf of his co-author and mentee, Eena Maxine A. Jazul, a graduate of the AB ELS Program of UST, has recently been published in the 2017 issue of the Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL), published by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP). The said paper examines language and language ideologies mirrored in the public signs found in the landscape of Binondo Chinatown.

SS22 was attended by over 900 participants from across the globe. Countless papers were presented either in a themed panel, a colloquium or in individual paper presentations. Since its early beginnings, the Sociolinguistics Symposium has become the premier sociolinguistics conference internationally. In 2002, the symposium was first held in continental Europe and 2018 sees it held for the first time outside of Europe and in the Southern Hemisphere. This year’s theme is “Crossing Borders: South, North, East, West.”

Big names in sociolinguistics such as Prof. Allan Bell (Auckland University of Technology), Prof. Anna de Fina (Georgetown University), Prof. Rawinia Higgins (Victoria University of Wellington, Prof. Janet Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington), Prof. Rita Kotari (Ashoka University) served as keynote speakers.

Bernardo is the current Faculty Secretary of the , where he also teaches English courses for the master’s and doctorate programs.

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Anchored on the theme “Multilingualism and ESL,’ the conference lends itself to discussions of identity, how people can balance living within and being of multiple cultures, and how they encourage the respect and value of both multilingualism and multiculturalism.

Bernardo’s paper tackled Philippine English (PhE) manifestations and structures in curricular elements and evaluates whether pedagogical practices in the English as Second Language (ESL) classrooms in the Philippines are adherent to the World Englishes (WE) paradigm. Incidentally, the same paper is to be published in the 2017 special issue of the Philippine ESL Journal (PESL). Edited by Prof. Arianne M. Borlongan, Ph.D. of the University of Tokyo, the 2017 issue of PESL is dedicated to Philippine English.

Drs. William “Pila” H. Wilson and Kauanoe Kamanā served as the plenary session speakers. This husband-and-wife tandem has been at the forefront of the Hawaiian language revitalization movement since moving to Hilo in the late 1970s.

The conference was attended by participants from various parts of Asia and the United States. Parallel paper presentations that showcased the research output of graduate students and language practitioners were also held in the morning and afternoon sessions.

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Dr. Vizconde is currently the Chairperson of the , under the , while Dr. Bernardo, also from the Department of English, is the Faculty Secretary of the .

The Linguistic Society of the Philippines, established in 1969, is a renowned academic organization of linguists coming from the different universities and colleges in the country.

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