This dissertation explicates the grammar of Itawit, a language spoken in northern part of the Phi... more This dissertation explicates the grammar of Itawit, a language spoken in northern part of the Philippines, using spoken data which included naturally-occurring conversations of native speakers from various settings in the Itawit-speaking community, narrative data elicited through Pear stories, and spoken-like data which were posts taken from two active Itawit Facebook pages. The study is considered to be the first to describe the intricacies of Itawit grammar using recorded spoken data; other sources include the informants and participants who are native speakers of the language. It employed the eclectic approach which is a fusion of concepts from varied proponents in describing certain grammatical features of the language.This Reference Grammar of Itawit has 16 chapters. Chapter 1 provides the introduction, which includes a general background the Itawit people and their language, theoretical frameworks, and previous studies and literature about Itawit. In Chapter 2, data and method...
Much have been written on exploring and investigating coherent markers of writers coming from dif... more Much have been written on exploring and investigating coherent markers of writers coming from different cultures; however, no study has attempted to look into the use of non-topical linguistic materials among students belonging to a different subculture of one particular culture. Anchored on Kachru’s (1999) Contrastive Rhetoric Hypothesis, this paper investigates the use of linguistic materials in the narrative essays of Ilocano writers and Ifugao student writers, two subcultures in Region 2. Results revealed that across the five categories, the Ifugao students had the greater propensity to use non-topical linguistic materials than the Ilocano students, except for illocution markers. As regards discourse connectives, the most common devices employed are the elaborative discourse markers, “and” and “but”. The higher occurrence of modality markers among the narrative essays written by the Ifugaos may also signify tentativeness in expressing their views. Also, the Ilocano students are ...
Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2021
Intercultural education is firmly rooted on the notion that language and culture are intrinsicall... more Intercultural education is firmly rooted on the notion that language and culture are intrinsically linked. Several studies have looked into the importance of understanding different languages and cultures in language teaching; however, studies on the integration of principles intercultural language learning (IcLL) in Philippine ESL classrooms seem to be lacking. This is what the article addresses as it looked into the extent of integration of IcLL principles in two higher educational institution in Region 2, Cagayan Valley, Northern Philippines. Anchored on the principles of IcLL and through the employment of survey to elicit responses of the language teachers as to the integration of IcLL principles in language classrooms, results revealed that teachers perceive IcLL to be integrated in their classrooms to a great extent. Specifically, the principles of active construction and social interaction are integrated to a very high extent while the principles making connections, reflectio...
Grice’s Cooperative Principle has remained in the limelight especially when it comes to analyzing... more Grice’s Cooperative Principle has remained in the limelight especially when it comes to analyzing utterances in a conversation. Although numerous studies have looked into the violation of conversations, real or imagined, on the Gricean maxims, none has explored conversations that are posted on Facebook. This paper then attempted to revisit the observance or violation of the Gricean maxims in FB conversation posts. FB nowadays is a good source of data for linguistic analysis and exploration. The author intends to investigate FB conversation posts and how participants in the conversations of this generation violate the Gricean maxims and the possible implicatures generated from the utterances. The analysis clearly reflected speakers’ attempts to cooperate in the conversation by providing answers that observe the maxims of quantity, quality, relevance and manner. In the same manner, evidence also suggests that the interlocutors in most cases tend to violate Grice’s maxims. Of the four ...
This dissertation explicates the grammar of Itawit, a language spoken in northern part of the Phi... more This dissertation explicates the grammar of Itawit, a language spoken in northern part of the Philippines, using spoken data which included naturally-occurring conversations of native speakers from various settings in the Itawit-speaking community, narrative data elicited through Pear stories, and spoken-like data which were posts taken from two active Itawit Facebook pages. The study is considered to be the first to describe the intricacies of Itawit grammar using recorded spoken data; other sources include the informants and participants who are native speakers of the language. It employed the eclectic approach which is a fusion of concepts from varied proponents in describing certain grammatical features of the language.This Reference Grammar of Itawit has 16 chapters. Chapter 1 provides the introduction, which includes a general background the Itawit people and their language, theoretical frameworks, and previous studies and literature about Itawit. In Chapter 2, data and method...
Much have been written on exploring and investigating coherent markers of writers coming from dif... more Much have been written on exploring and investigating coherent markers of writers coming from different cultures; however, no study has attempted to look into the use of non-topical linguistic materials among students belonging to a different subculture of one particular culture. Anchored on Kachru’s (1999) Contrastive Rhetoric Hypothesis, this paper investigates the use of linguistic materials in the narrative essays of Ilocano writers and Ifugao student writers, two subcultures in Region 2. Results revealed that across the five categories, the Ifugao students had the greater propensity to use non-topical linguistic materials than the Ilocano students, except for illocution markers. As regards discourse connectives, the most common devices employed are the elaborative discourse markers, “and” and “but”. The higher occurrence of modality markers among the narrative essays written by the Ifugaos may also signify tentativeness in expressing their views. Also, the Ilocano students are ...
Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2021
Intercultural education is firmly rooted on the notion that language and culture are intrinsicall... more Intercultural education is firmly rooted on the notion that language and culture are intrinsically linked. Several studies have looked into the importance of understanding different languages and cultures in language teaching; however, studies on the integration of principles intercultural language learning (IcLL) in Philippine ESL classrooms seem to be lacking. This is what the article addresses as it looked into the extent of integration of IcLL principles in two higher educational institution in Region 2, Cagayan Valley, Northern Philippines. Anchored on the principles of IcLL and through the employment of survey to elicit responses of the language teachers as to the integration of IcLL principles in language classrooms, results revealed that teachers perceive IcLL to be integrated in their classrooms to a great extent. Specifically, the principles of active construction and social interaction are integrated to a very high extent while the principles making connections, reflectio...
Grice’s Cooperative Principle has remained in the limelight especially when it comes to analyzing... more Grice’s Cooperative Principle has remained in the limelight especially when it comes to analyzing utterances in a conversation. Although numerous studies have looked into the violation of conversations, real or imagined, on the Gricean maxims, none has explored conversations that are posted on Facebook. This paper then attempted to revisit the observance or violation of the Gricean maxims in FB conversation posts. FB nowadays is a good source of data for linguistic analysis and exploration. The author intends to investigate FB conversation posts and how participants in the conversations of this generation violate the Gricean maxims and the possible implicatures generated from the utterances. The analysis clearly reflected speakers’ attempts to cooperate in the conversation by providing answers that observe the maxims of quantity, quality, relevance and manner. In the same manner, evidence also suggests that the interlocutors in most cases tend to violate Grice’s maxims. Of the four ...
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