Salinlahi II – a collaborative learning environment for Filipino heritage learners

• Main Authors: Gan, Matthew C., Handog, Ian Jonathan B., Panis, Miguel Lorenzo., Teh Jerold Brian.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Tagalog language > Grammar Tagalog language > Study and teaching
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/10131
• Institution: De La Salle University

A heritage learner is “a person who is raised in a home where a language other than English is spoken, who speaks or understands that language, and who is some degree bilingual in English and the home language” (Valdes, 2000). There are various tools that aid these heritage learners in learning their language. Salinlahi is an interactive learning environment that teach these heritage learners the Filipino language. Despite the amount of learning that a child may get by using the current Salinlahi system, the child may not be able to get the full experience of learning a language because of the limitations of an individual-bases learning environment. This research project aims to add collaborative learning into Salinlahi’s current formula. Implementation of the system will include data gathering, coding the modules which include: communication module and user activities, and system testing and evaluation. The system was tested and evaluated by experts and the target users. The experts thought that the presentation of the system was good and the content was appropriate for the target audience as well but how the system taught Filipino was said to be a bit flawed and should follow how a teacher of the Filipino languages teaches foreigners. The system proved to be not much more effective in teaching Filipino than the non-collaborative learning environment.