Pangasinan language here to stay
By Danny O. Sagun
PANGASINAN (5 June) -- THE Dr. Jose G. Tamayo Foundation, Inc. headed by former Pozorrubio Councilor Mel Jovellanos hopes to achieve this mission along with the preservation or revival of Pangasinan arts and culture.
Tamayo was behind the success of the Perpetual Help Education System which operates universities and medical centers in eight areas including the big Malasiqui campus, according to Jovellanos, foundation president.
First in the foundation's agenda is a conference on Pangasinan culture, arts and language on August 10, 11 tentatively set at Leisure Coast where research papers on the subject will be presented.
Winners in the writing competition for short story and poetry will also be announced during the occasion, he said.
The foundation is one of the well-meaning groups in the province that aim to preserve the Pangasinan language which, according to some sectors, is already "dying," apparently with the inroads of Filipino, the national language, and its exclusion from the school curriculum.
Some decades ago, Pangasinan was used as a teaching medium and the language itself was studied in the primary grades. (DOS/PIA)
PANGASINAN (5 June) -- THE Dr. Jose G. Tamayo Foundation, Inc. headed by former Pozorrubio Councilor Mel Jovellanos hopes to achieve this mission along with the preservation or revival of Pangasinan arts and culture.
Tamayo was behind the success of the Perpetual Help Education System which operates universities and medical centers in eight areas including the big Malasiqui campus, according to Jovellanos, foundation president.
First in the foundation's agenda is a conference on Pangasinan culture, arts and language on August 10, 11 tentatively set at Leisure Coast where research papers on the subject will be presented.
Winners in the writing competition for short story and poetry will also be announced during the occasion, he said.
The foundation is one of the well-meaning groups in the province that aim to preserve the Pangasinan language which, according to some sectors, is already "dying," apparently with the inroads of Filipino, the national language, and its exclusion from the school curriculum.
Some decades ago, Pangasinan was used as a teaching medium and the language itself was studied in the primary grades. (DOS/PIA)
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