Moving Forward with LSPIC Day 3

The last leg of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines International Conference (LSPIC) 2023 opened its session early in the morning in multiple venues around the Mindanao State University - Iligan Instite of Technology (MSU-IIT) for its Concurrent Session F and G (all of which are Parallel Paper Presentations).

Day three also introduced the third plenary session held at the Plenary Hall (the MSU-IIT Gymnasium). The plenary speaker was none other than James McLellan from the Universiti Brunei Darussalam. The three key ares that Dr. McLellan delved on was on decentering, decolonizing, and deconstructing languages and how it is problematized.

Subsequent to the plenary session was the LSP Featured Panel. The panel involved experts from various key areas in Southeast Asia. The first of which was Dr. Shameem Galea the President of the Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics, followed by Dr. Kornwipa Poonpon the President of the Thailand Association of Applied Linguistics, and Professors from several Universities in the Philippines. Dr. Shirley Dita from the De La Salle University, Dr. Alejandro Bernardo from the University of Santo Tomas, and Dr. Irish Fernandez-Dalona from the MSU-IIT. Each panel member presented their own case studies from their respective institutions and countries.

Afterwards, Azirah Hashim, the President of The International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) gave the closing keynote address. President Hashim highlighted the Internationalisation of Higher Education and English as a Medium of Instruction in the Association of South East Asian Nation countries (ASEAN).

After Hashim's keynote, special announcements were made particularly other academic conferences, fora, concerning linguistics.

About the Author

Reggy Bartido

Reggy H. Bartido is a Senior BA (Sociology) undergraduate student at the Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT). Currently, Mr. Bartido is the Editor-in-Chief of CASSayuran - the Official Student Publication of the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) of MSU-IIT. Mr. Bartido's undergraduate thesis centres around Environmental Sociology studies and Sustainable Development. Additionally, he is keenly interested in Youth Studies and Political Sociology, where he continues exploring new insights and perspectives. Likewise, Mr. Bartido was a participant of the Ateneo School of Government and participate PH sponsored training on Campus Media: Media Ethics and Democracy in Action held at Ateneo De Manila University, last November 2022. The training was attended by 30 campus journalists over the country. Mr. Bartido was also given a participant status at the SAPA Mindanao Workshop for Journalism last February 2023 during the FEMSUSCO Meet.