Corpus of Spanish Language Teaching Materials in the Philippines (20th–21st Centuries): A Bibliographic Dataset

This dataset contains a bibliographic corpus of Spanish-language teaching materials used in the Philippines from the 20th and 21st centuries. The corpus includes textbooks, grammar manuals, workbooks, readers, and other pedagogical materials identified in university libraries, institutional collections, and archival repositories, including the University of the Philippines Diliman, the University of Santo Tomas, Ateneo de Manila, and the Instituto Cervantes de Manila. The dataset was compiled to support research on the history of Spanish language teaching in the Philippines, the evolution of pedagogical approaches, language mediation practices, and the circulation of both locally produced and imported teaching materials. Each entry includes bibliographic metadata and, where available, information on material type, pedagogical approach, language mediation, cultural orientation, and institutional holding location. The dataset also distinguishes between locally produced and imported materials. The corpus was manually curated and normalised from heterogeneous catalogues, bibliographic records, and physical collections. Inclusion criteria were restricted to materials related to the teaching of Spanish from 1900 onwards. This dataset is intended for research purposes in the fields of Spanish language teaching, applied linguistics, educational history, Philippine studies, and language policy.