Francisco Perlas Dumanig, Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor Dumanig’s research focuses on family language policy of Filipinos in Hawaiʻi, education and language in the Philippines, and caregivers’ interaction with elderly patients in adult residential care homes.

Posted July 1, 2024.

Francisco Perlas Dumanig is a tenured associate professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. He also serves as program coordinator for the certificate in teaching English to speakers of other languages. His areas of expertise are in teaching English as a second or foreign language, Southeast Asian Englishes, discourse analysis of language and identity, language planning and policy, and sociolinguistics.
- See UH Hilo Associate Professor of English Francis Dumanig receives tenure and promotion (July 6, 2023, UH Hilo Stories)
Dumanig received his master of arts in English from Philippine Christian University, and his doctor of philosophy in linguistics-sociolinguistics from the University of Malaya.
Before coming to UH Hilo in 2018, he was a senior lecturer of languages and linguistics at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and other universities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Middle East, and the U.S.
Research and publications
Associate Professor Dumanig’s research focuses on family language policy of Filipinos in Hawaiʻi, education and language in the Philippines, and caregivers’ interaction with elderly patients in adult residential care homes.
He is well published in peer-reviewed journals such as Cambridge Language Teaching Journal, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, World Englishes, Multilingua, Language Policy, and International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
A recent book publication is Education and Language in the Philippines (Lexington, 2022), a comprehensive overview of the critical role of education and language development in the Philippines co-written with Lorraine Pe Symaco, a professor of education at Zhejiang University, China.

By Susan Enright, a public information specialist for the Office of the Chancellor and editor of Keaohou and UH Hilo Stories. She received her bachelor of arts in English and certificate in women’s studies from UH Hilo.