FOR the first time, a Filipino will be teaching Filipino language courses at the prestigious Harvard University.
In a statement by James Robson, the Victor and William Fung director at the university's Asia Center and a Harvard College professor, he said that Lady Aileen Orsal was hired as a 'preceptor in Filipino Languages.'A preceptor 'provides language, skill-oriented, or other special instructions' at the university.The hiring of Orsal comes as Harvard begins offering elementary and intermediate Filipino courses for the first time in its nearly 400-year history.
Orsal, who is teaching Filipino at Cavite State University, began her teaching career as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University in 2018, where she assisted teaching of Filipino at the introductory and intermediate levels.
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