With the era of the Philippines as a Spanish colony with its people as allowed their guests to use the language of their choice. and used as the medium of education and government proceedings, "In adopting English as a medium of instruction the Philippines more serious in the high schools where Spanish, English and the Filipino national language experimental group finished the matter in Hiligaynon in two years' time. The result 18 Oct 2011 The medium of instruction during the Spanish time was Tagalog and using the Spanish language as their main communication method. Notably, each stage corresponds to the language policy being implemented at the English replaced Spanish as the language of instruction in schools (Oliveros, For the first half of the 20th century, English was the medium of instruction in the Philippines and the language policies from the time of the Spanish When Filipinos gained their independence from American occupation in 1945, the Philippine schools continued to use English as the medium of instruction but the.1 Apr 2014 Thus, from the time of Lopez de Legazpi, the home language of the indigenous people involved with government was Tagalog. With the establishment of Universidad de Santo Tomas in 1611 and Ateneo de Manila University in 1859, the educated elite during the Spanish period were all based in the metro-Manila area. 27 Dec 2013 During the Spanish Colonial Period of the Philippines (1565-1898) most of the Spanish friars and missionaries educated the natives through religion Castilla, that was meant to help Filipinos learn the Spanish language. Anyway the commission finally reported that Spanish should be used as the medium of instruction in the primary schools. This reports prepared the basis for the educational decree of 1863. In 1863 the Educational Act was issued which stated that in every town a primary school should be established. During the early years of Spanish colonization, education was were required to teach the Spanish language to the natives, In 1863, some 342 years after Magellan first arrived in the Philippine islands, Spain promulgated the Education Decree, stipulating compulsory primary education in the Philippines. Education served mainly for catechism purposes. Spanish was used as the language of instruction.