Reading, Early Grades, Art, and Language Education (REGALE)

(as of 1st semester AY 2024-2025)

LITERACY / READING EDUCATION

Dina Joana S. Ocampo-Cristobal

Professor
dsocampo2@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD in Psychology, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
    • MA in Education, Reading Education, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • BEEd, Special Education, College of Education, UP Diliman
  • Specialization: 
    • Literacy Education
  • Research Interests:
    • Teacher Professional Development; Dyslexia and literacy difficulties; Assessment of literacy
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Development of multi literacy assessments for Filipino Learners
    • Aiming for seamless and integrated learning delivery systems in the Philippines
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • EDCOM 2 technical committee member for teacher education

Portia P. Padilla

Professor
pppadilla@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications: 
    • PhD Psychology (Developmental Psychology), Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo)
    • MA in Education, Reading Education, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • BSEd, English (Minor in Math), College of Education, UP Diliman

Maria Hazelle Preclaro-Ongtengco

Assistant Professor
mrpreclaroongtengco@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • MA Reading Specialist Program, Teachers College, Columbia University USA
    • BEEd, Special Education, College of Education UP Diliman
  • Specialization: 
    • Beginning Reading; Literacy Instruction for Intermediate Learners; Reading Intervention; Diagnostic Teaching
  • Research Interests: 
    • Literacy Assessment and Instruction; Challenges in Learning to Read and Write; Diagnostic Teaching; Assistive Technology for Reading and Writing; Literacy Across the Lifespan; Children’s Literature
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Oral Language Development in the Kindergarten Curriculum: Revisiting the Competencies; Identifying Strengths and Gaps and Drafting Recommendations
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • Beginning Literacy; Specialized Literacy Programs; Literacy Assessment and Instruction
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Marie Grace C. Reoperez

Assistant Professor
mcreoperez@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD in Education, Reading Education, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • MA in Education, Reading Education, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • BSEd, English and Values Education, Far Eastern University
  • Specialization: 
    • Literacy Education; Adolescent Literacy Education; Adolescent Literature; Content Literacy Education
  • Research Interests: 
    • Adolescent Literacy; Adult Literacy; Content Literacy; Reading Motivation; Digital Literacy; Literacy Assessment
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • COVID-19 and its impact on Adult Education and Learning:  A scoping research in the UK
    • Afghanistan and  the Philippines (with Gina Lontoc, Joahna Mante, Rosalie Quilicol, Katrina Topacio, Arceli Amarles) 
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • Informal literacy trainings
    • Trainings & lecture-workshops on adolescent and adult literacy and assessment
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Ana Maria Margarita S. Salvador

Assistant Professor
assalvador1@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD in Education, Reading Education, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • MA Developmental Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University
    • AB Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Specialization: 
    • Reading Education; Early Childhood Education; Montessori Education
  • Research interests: 
    • Reading Motivation; Children’s Literature; Language and Literacy Education
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Patterns of language use in low SES families and language input from the home environment (ongoing)
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • Training of trainers for the Bayan Ko, Titser Ko Program (Angat Buhay)
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Lecturers

Mary Margaret Rosary Carmel E. Fua

Senior Lecturer
mefua2@up.edu.ph

Kathrina Lorraine M. Lucasan

Senior Lecturer
kmlucasan@up.edu.ph

EARLY GRADES / EARLY EDUCATION

Marie Yvette C. Alcazar

Assistant Professor
mcalcazar@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • MA in Education, Reading Education, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • BEEd, Teaching in the Early Grades, K-2, College of Education, UP Diliman
  • Specialization: 
    • Early Childhood Education; Early Literacy and Numeracy
  • Research Interests: 
    • Learning through play; Oral language development; Parenting and mental health; Mental health of children; Counseling young children
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Oral language development
    • Factors affecting parenting styles
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • Trainings & Lecture-workshops on Early Literacy and Numeracy
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Eva Haydee G. Alipustain

Assistant Professor
egalipustain@up.edu.ph

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  • Specialization:
    • Early childhood education; Curriculum development and assessment
  • Research Interests:
    • Social Studies in Early Childhood Education; Critical Thinking; Critical Pedagogy

Leonor E. Diaz

Associate Professor | Chair, Division of Curriculum and Instruction
lediaz@up.edu.ph

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  • Specialization: 
    • Early Childhood Education

ART EDUCATION

Romina P. Beltran-Almazan

Assistant Professor | REGALE Cluster Head
rbalmazan@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • MA in Education, Curriculum Studies, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • Bachelor in Interior Design, UP Diliman
  • Specialization: 
    • Art Education; Curriculum Development and Instructional Design; Space Planning; Painting 
  • Research Interests: 
    • Art education program development and implementation; Curriculum Overload; Art and literacy; Visual Literacy; Aesthetic development; Stakeholders’ beliefs about and participation in art education; Heutagogical practices and strategies in art education; Art Education approaches including art for wellness, universal learning, inclusive, expressive, culture-based art education
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • CIDS Fellowship, Co-Produced Oral Language Intervention Program for 5-year Old Children
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • Teacher training and program development consultant for Deped, schools and other organizations
    • President – Art Ventures and Advocacy Network
    • Artbox project proponent and coordinator
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Charo Marie V. Defeo-Baquial

Assistant Professor
cvdefeobaquial@up.edu.ph

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  • Specialization: 
    • Art Education; Special Education; Graphic Design; Traditional & Digital Art
  • Research Interests: 
    • Expressive Arts; Inclusive Arts; Curative Education; Art and Wellness
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • CIDS Fellowship, Co-Produced Oral Language Intervention Program for 5-year Old Children
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Lecturers

Patria S. Bautista

Senior Lecturer
psbautista4@up.edu.ph

Jama M. Ramos

Lecturer
jmramos25@up.edu.ph

LANGUAGE EDUCATION

King Arman A. Calingasan

Assistant Professor
kacalingasan@up.edu.ph

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Romylyn A. Metila

Associate Professor

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Audrey B. Morallo

Assistant Professor
abmorallo@outlook.up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • MA in Education, Language Education, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • BA Journalism, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas, Manila
  • Research Interests:
    • Discourse analysis, Linguistic mitigation, Corpus linguistics, Teacher training, Language acquisition
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Patterns of language use of children in low SES families and language input from the home environment
    • Mitigation patterns in supervisory discourse and how they contribute to maintaining dialog
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • Teacher training
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Katrina Paula V. Ortega

Assistant Professor
kvortega@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • Master of Arts in Filipino, Wika, College of Arts and Letters, UP Diliman
    • BSEd, Communication Arts-Filipino, (Minor in Social Studies), College of Education, UP Diliman  
  • Specialization:
    • Pagtuturo ng Filipino sa Batayang Edukasyon; Pagpaplanong Pangwika
  • Research Interests:
    • Gramatika at Estandardisasyon ng Wikang Filipino; Paghahambing ng mga Wikang Pilipino; Sosyolinggwistiks at Pagpaplanong Pangwika sa Pilipinas; Pagtuturo at Kurikulum ng Filipino sa Batayang Edukasyon
  • Extension service activities:
    • Pagsasanay ng mga Guro

Juland D. Salayo

Assistant Professor
jdsalayo1@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD in English Language Education, Philippine Normal University
    • Master in Educational Management, Polytechnic University of the Philippines 
    • BSEd, Major in English, Southern Luzon State University
  • Specialization: 
    • Language Education; Teachers’ Professional Development; Linguistic Justice; Adult Literacy
  • Research Interests: 
    • Critical Language Pedagogy (CLP); Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology; Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); Interactional/Conversational Analysis (I/CA); Language Education Sustainability
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Normalizing impoliteness in online discourse: Issues, agenda, and drama in the Philippine electorate behavior
    • Formation standards at the heart of critical principles of academic writing curriculum (with R.B. Lintao)
    • Internationalizing humanized language education: Promoting inclusivity and critical multiliteracies for future Filipino learners
    • Oral language development in the kindergarten curriculum: Revisiting the competencies, identifying strengths and gaps and drafting (with M.H.R. Preclaro-Ongtenco, M.Y.C. Alcazar, R.B. Almazan, C.F. Baquial, L.E. Diaz, & M. Gunio)
    • Filipino teachers’ perceptions and knowledge of inclusive education (with J. Chitiyo, K. Simone, & A. Chitiyo) (in press)
    • Sociolinguistic competence in an online communication: The case of native and non-native speakers of Spanish (with J.C. Bautista) (in press)
    • “The voice over the letter of choice”: Humanizing classroom language testing’s agenda through sustainability (in press)
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Crizel P. Sicat-De Laza

Assistant Professor
cpsicatdelaza@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD Filipino, Pagpaplanong Pangwika (ongoing), College of Arts and Letters, UP Diliman
    • MA in Filipino Language Education, College of Education, Saint Louis University
    • BA Philippine Studies, College of Arts and Letters, UP Diliman
  • Research Interests:
    • Language Policy and Planning; Critical Language Education; Materials Development
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Multimedia analysis of visual discourses at West Philippine Sea: A tripartite analysis of photographs, language citizenship and critical pedagogy
    • Pagbuo ng Dawani: Kritikal na perspektiba sa kagamitang panturo sa wika at pagbasa

Emmanuel B. Verzo Jr.

Assistant Professor
ebverzo@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD in Media Studies (ongoing), UP Diliman
    • MA in Education, Reading Education, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • BSEd, Communication Arts-English, (Minor in Journalism), College of Education, UP Diliman
  • Specialization:
    • Language Education; Reading Education; Media Literacy
  • Research Interests:
    • Language Teaching and Learning; Literacy and Reading Development; Media and Cultural Studies 
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Media Literacy for Adults
  • Extension service activities:
    • Teacher Training