Many teachers have conveyed discontentment with the literacy achievement shown by many students. The English area teachers of the university decided to address this deficiency with the on-going implementation of the remedial program in the elementary. In senior high school… More

Many teachers have conveyed discontentment with the literacy achievement shown by many students. The English area teachers of the university decided to address this deficiency with the on-going implementation of the remedial program in the elementary. In senior high school and tertiary levels, the risks are high. Teachers then expect learners to use diverse texts in order to answer; to form an analysis, to make experiments and to do research. It is not shocking that there are multiple communicative shortcomings at the secondary and tertiary levels. Difficulties which were minor, controllable or partially disregarded now become major concerns. This study was conducted to find out the English performance of the Grade 9 students of the University of San Carlos North Campus in terms of the three components: written works, quarterly assessments, and performance tasks. It also sought to determine the factors that affect the English performance of students. As an output of this study, a curriculum map was designed for English classroom use. This study used qualitative and quantitative methods. The teacher-made test, as an instrument, was adapted from the study of Murcia, Belando, Silveira (2015) and Magno & Bunagan (2009). Fifty students and two teachers in Grade 9 answered the survey questionnaires. The results revealed that the English performance of the Grade 9 students was above average and the top factors that impacted their performance were teacher’s personality, teacher’s communication skill, assessment, and teaching strategies. Through analysis, students’ English performance was significantly influenced by how the teachers treat them and how they deliver the lessons. Teachers need to reflect on the factors which assist and deter the academic performance of the child. To better prepare classroom activities, a well-prepared curriculum map was found to enrich instruction delivery among teachers and augment learning potentials among students. Since this research has discovered the gaps on giving the assessments, and most influential factors that affect their academic English performance, this curriculum map was designed to address all these findings. Less

Compliments and compliment responses are prevalent in Social Networking Sites (SNS), like Facebook. This study was conducted to investigate the compliment and compliment response strategies produced by Facebook users in photo comment sections. This study used the qualitative and quantitative… More

Compliments and compliment responses are prevalent in Social Networking Sites (SNS), like Facebook. This study was conducted to investigate the compliment and compliment response strategies produced by Facebook users in photo comment sections. This study used the qualitative and quantitative design in spotting and analyzing the felicity conditions of compliment and compliment response strategies produced by thirty participants. Using Zhang’s (2013) taxonomy for compliment strategies, the results showed that the most used approach in complimenting is Explicit compliment, in which the complimenters used adjectives that carry positive values. Meanwhile, using Yu’s (2004, cited in Tamimi Sa’d’, 2015) taxonomy for categorizing compliment response strategies, the Face Relationship-related Response Strategy is the most common strategy used by the complimentees in responding to the received compliments. Most of the complimentees chose not to accept, amend, or reject the compliment. Instead, they dealt with the compliment implicitly within the interaction, preferring not to directly address the prepositional content of the compliment. It was revealed that the use of strategies depends on the relationship between the complimenter and the complimentee. Their relationship may influence the kind of strategies and words the complimentees use in their responses. The social media users, as they read this study, will be aware of how compliments and compliment responses function and are structures in this online setting, which may incite them to use these two social acts more strategically. Less

This study analyzed the Cebuano-Bisaya particles and their corresponding functions, as well as their frequency of usage between two disk jockeys (DJs) and a random number of callers. The current research involved six (6) chosen 99.5 RT Ninduta Ah! Radio… More

This study analyzed the Cebuano-Bisaya particles and their corresponding functions, as well as their frequency of usage between two disk jockeys (DJs) and a random number of callers. The current research involved six (6) chosen 99.5 RT Ninduta Ah! Radio broadcasts, specifically from a segment called “Itanong Mo Portion.” The DJs and the callers served as the participants for this study. The recorded conversations from the said segment containing the use of the different types of Cebuano-Bisaya particles provided the study’s main source of data. Results unveiled that placeholder particles were the most evident among all the types of the Cebuano-Bisaya particles; “word search while holding a turn ranked first as the most common function of the Cebuano-Bisaya particles, followed by “emphasis,” “to assert information” as the third and “to convey an attitude” as the fourth. However, the use of “euphemism” and “reformulating clausal structure” provided no data in the study, and the post-nominal type of particles was the least used. Furthermore, between the DJs and the callers, it was found out that the DJs were the frequent users of the Cebuano-Bisaya discourse particles compared to the callers. Less