Doplon 1 CODE-SWITCHING IN PHILIPPINE TABLOIDS: SUBSERVIENCE AND RESISTANCE IN A POST-COLONIAL SOCIETY Frances Paola G. Doplon Ateneo de Manila University ABSTRACT What is the link between social values and linguistic features in the real world that students are being prepared for? With the range and depth of cultural interaction in the 21 st century, our learners find themselves in a multilingual society where the mixing of language in daily conversation finds its way to written work. By analyzing a corpus from the tabloids or compact newspapers, it is possible to further describe the reality of code-switching in the Philippines. The corpus is comprised of seven consecutive cover stories from the tabloid, Abante, whose base language is Filipino. The study investigates the syntactic categories code-switched, the linguistic assumptions the text makes on regarding its readers, and possible reasons for switching to English. The analysis of the multiple motivations for code-switching conveys a connection between linguistic features and cultural values of a post-colonial society. The analysis from a historical-political context reveals conflicting views on the role of English. As an implication, a multicultural orientation to language teaching is suggested in order to prepare students with communication strategies for diverse multilingual contexts outside the classroom. 1. INTRODUCTION Learner writers should not be acculturated unquestioningly into the ideologies that support particular social orders. Rather, pedagogy should bring to surface the issue of which values and beliefs are embedded in certain writing practices, discourses and genres, and what alternatives there might be. (Clark and Ivanic, 1997, p. 251) In their book, The Politics of Writing, Romy Clark and Roz Ivanic assert the role of the written word in shaping society through the various and conflicting socio-political values that they carry. The written text is a venue for the struggle for identity. If citizenship is a goal of education, then the classroom ought to prepare students for the real world where the contact of ideologies in written