Papers by Shangrela V Genon-Sieras
Journal of Applied Technology in Education, 2015
The researcher in this study attempted to discover whether the inclusion of audio and visual cues... more The researcher in this study attempted to discover whether the inclusion of audio and visual cues of audience in the writing context will lead to an increase in the quality of persuasive essays among English 2 students of the Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City, Philippines. Specifically, the study focused on finding the mean difference between the pretest and the posttest results of the respondents' quality of persuasive writing under three conditions, namely: unspecified audience, specified audience without audio and visual cues, and specified audience with audio and visual cues. To measure the quality of student's writing, a holistic score was obtained using a Focused Holistic Scoring Guide. The score reflected the quality of the test in terms of communication effectiveness and persuasiveness. The findings of the study revealed that the quality of the students' persuasive essays has significantly improved when the writing task was presented with visual and audio cues of audience. The results manifested some positive effect of visual and audio cues when used as instructional aids or meditative tools in writing classes.
Interdisciplinary Discourses in Language and Communication , 2011
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The researcher in this study attempted to discover whether the inclusion of audience aud... more Abstract
The researcher in this study attempted to discover whether the inclusion of audience audio-visual cues in the writing context led to an increase in the quality of persuasive writing and audience adaptation in the persuasive essays of English 2 students of Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City, Philippines. It also sought to discover the degree of relationship, if any, between the respondents’ profile and the quality of their persuasive essays with the intervention of audience adaptation and the assigned audience with three levels: unspecified audience, specified audience without audio-visual cues, and specified audience with audio-visual cues. The findings of the study revealed that the inclusion of audience visual and audio cues has resulted in a significant difference on the pretest and posttest holistic scores and audience adaptation of the respondents under the specified audience with audio-visual cues group. It also found that there is a significant relationship between the respondents’ quality of persuasive writing and the respondents’ age and English 1 grade in both the pretest and the posttest while gender and average monthly family income revealed no significant relationship. Language spoken at home and ethnic affiliation also have a significant relationship to the respondents’ quality of persuasive writing but only during the posttest.
Keywords: persuasive writing, audience adaptation, audience cues, visual and audio
cues, MSU Marawi English 2 students
International Journal of English Language Studies, 2020
This study aims to analyze and describe the morphemic and phonemic structures of verbs and nouns ... more This study aims to analyze and describe the morphemic and phonemic structures of verbs and nouns in a research abstract as source of data. The morphemic structure analysis focuses on the free-bound morphemic affixations of English verbs and nouns while the morphophonemic analysis focuses on the allomorph variations of the inflectional morphemes in English verbs and nouns. Findings of the study reveal that majority of the verbs used in the research abstract have inflectional type of affixations where a bound morpheme is added to the stem as suffix. These morphemes mark tense and number of verbs. The nouns, on the other hand, generally have derivational affixation that involves appending of suffixes to the verb form to derive the noun form. This study affirms that English verbs and nouns generally have inflectional suffixes to mark grammatical categories such as tense and number. In another note, both of the verbs and nouns with inflectional morphemes undergo phonological modifications in terms of their allomorphic variants. The allomorphs [s], [z] and [iz] of the morpheme{s} are used to mark number in nouns and tense in verbs while the allomorphs [d], [ǝd] and [t] of the morpheme {d} mark the tense in regular verbs with inflectional morphemes. The allomorphs in both verbs and nouns involve voicing assimilation and dissimilation as phonological processes. The implications of the findings of the study would be that second language learners of English need to familiarize the morphemic structure of words as they can be very helpful in understanding the meanings of words. Moreover, they have to familiarize the environments where the allomorphic variants of inflectional morphemes are realized so that they would be able to pronounce the words correctly. Such interaction of morphology and phonology can cause learning difficulty for second language learners of English whose first language, like the Cebuano Visayan, is sounded as spelled and is contrary to English which has allophonic and allomorphic variants occurring in words. The analysis can, therefore, be helpful to teachers in identifying areas of difficulty in learning a second language.
International Journal of English Language and Linguistic Research, 2020
This study analyzes the inaccuracies of the Cebuano Visayan language in the SunStar News Editoria... more This study analyzes the inaccuracies of the Cebuano Visayan language in the SunStar News Editorial Dalaygon ang Kausaban. It aims to idealize the inaccurate orthography, syntactic system and morphemic structures of content words found in the textuality. Findings of the study reveal fifty-seven misspelled words which involve the use of inaccurate vowels, the absence of hyphens for glottal stops, and the lack of apostrophe in contracted words. Moreover, there are three inaccurate sentence constructions with a subject-predicate sequence instead of the predicate-subject system of the Cebuano Visayan language. Meanwhile, the morphemic structure of content words reveal that majority of the Cebuano words are formed by affixations that affect the grammaticalization of ideas and concepts. The study concludes that the Cebuano Visayan editorial of SunStar News reveals a textuality of inaccurate orthography, syntax, and morphemes. The study recommends the use of one common standard form of the language in mass media and in Cebuano Visayan language classes for linguistic accuracy.
Conference Presentations by Shangrela V Genon-Sieras
ABSTRACT
The study sought to find out common audience adaptation strategies used in the persuas... more ABSTRACT
The study sought to find out common audience adaptation strategies used in the persuasive essays among students in a basic writing class. It also aimed to discover the degree of relationship such as may exist between the respondents’ audience adaptation strategies and their ethnic affiliation. The role of audience adaptation, which is expressed or manifested in terms of rhetorical moves, such as naming, context and strategy moves could have significant implications for writing pedagogy as they were assumed to interact with the respondents’ features or characteristics. The respondents of the study who are English 2 students of the Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City are a mixture of various ethnicities, including non-Muslim cultural communities coming from the different regions of the Philippines. To assess the audience adaptation strategies in the respondents’ essays, a coding scheme for audience adaptation was used. The coding scheme was based on rhetorical moves such as - naming, context, strategy, response and inappropriate moves. The study found out that the number and kinds of audience adaptation moves made by the respondents representing different ethnic groups to a certain extent reveal ethnic tendencies or characteristics. This shows proof that one’s culture has influence in one’s writing.
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Papers by Shangrela V Genon-Sieras
The researcher in this study attempted to discover whether the inclusion of audience audio-visual cues in the writing context led to an increase in the quality of persuasive writing and audience adaptation in the persuasive essays of English 2 students of Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City, Philippines. It also sought to discover the degree of relationship, if any, between the respondents’ profile and the quality of their persuasive essays with the intervention of audience adaptation and the assigned audience with three levels: unspecified audience, specified audience without audio-visual cues, and specified audience with audio-visual cues. The findings of the study revealed that the inclusion of audience visual and audio cues has resulted in a significant difference on the pretest and posttest holistic scores and audience adaptation of the respondents under the specified audience with audio-visual cues group. It also found that there is a significant relationship between the respondents’ quality of persuasive writing and the respondents’ age and English 1 grade in both the pretest and the posttest while gender and average monthly family income revealed no significant relationship. Language spoken at home and ethnic affiliation also have a significant relationship to the respondents’ quality of persuasive writing but only during the posttest.
Keywords: persuasive writing, audience adaptation, audience cues, visual and audio
cues, MSU Marawi English 2 students
Conference Presentations by Shangrela V Genon-Sieras
The study sought to find out common audience adaptation strategies used in the persuasive essays among students in a basic writing class. It also aimed to discover the degree of relationship such as may exist between the respondents’ audience adaptation strategies and their ethnic affiliation. The role of audience adaptation, which is expressed or manifested in terms of rhetorical moves, such as naming, context and strategy moves could have significant implications for writing pedagogy as they were assumed to interact with the respondents’ features or characteristics. The respondents of the study who are English 2 students of the Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City are a mixture of various ethnicities, including non-Muslim cultural communities coming from the different regions of the Philippines. To assess the audience adaptation strategies in the respondents’ essays, a coding scheme for audience adaptation was used. The coding scheme was based on rhetorical moves such as - naming, context, strategy, response and inappropriate moves. The study found out that the number and kinds of audience adaptation moves made by the respondents representing different ethnic groups to a certain extent reveal ethnic tendencies or characteristics. This shows proof that one’s culture has influence in one’s writing.
The researcher in this study attempted to discover whether the inclusion of audience audio-visual cues in the writing context led to an increase in the quality of persuasive writing and audience adaptation in the persuasive essays of English 2 students of Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City, Philippines. It also sought to discover the degree of relationship, if any, between the respondents’ profile and the quality of their persuasive essays with the intervention of audience adaptation and the assigned audience with three levels: unspecified audience, specified audience without audio-visual cues, and specified audience with audio-visual cues. The findings of the study revealed that the inclusion of audience visual and audio cues has resulted in a significant difference on the pretest and posttest holistic scores and audience adaptation of the respondents under the specified audience with audio-visual cues group. It also found that there is a significant relationship between the respondents’ quality of persuasive writing and the respondents’ age and English 1 grade in both the pretest and the posttest while gender and average monthly family income revealed no significant relationship. Language spoken at home and ethnic affiliation also have a significant relationship to the respondents’ quality of persuasive writing but only during the posttest.
Keywords: persuasive writing, audience adaptation, audience cues, visual and audio
cues, MSU Marawi English 2 students
The study sought to find out common audience adaptation strategies used in the persuasive essays among students in a basic writing class. It also aimed to discover the degree of relationship such as may exist between the respondents’ audience adaptation strategies and their ethnic affiliation. The role of audience adaptation, which is expressed or manifested in terms of rhetorical moves, such as naming, context and strategy moves could have significant implications for writing pedagogy as they were assumed to interact with the respondents’ features or characteristics. The respondents of the study who are English 2 students of the Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City are a mixture of various ethnicities, including non-Muslim cultural communities coming from the different regions of the Philippines. To assess the audience adaptation strategies in the respondents’ essays, a coding scheme for audience adaptation was used. The coding scheme was based on rhetorical moves such as - naming, context, strategy, response and inappropriate moves. The study found out that the number and kinds of audience adaptation moves made by the respondents representing different ethnic groups to a certain extent reveal ethnic tendencies or characteristics. This shows proof that one’s culture has influence in one’s writing.