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Foreword
On behalf of my co-editors, Dr. Carlo Magno and Dr. Danilo
Dayag, we are grateful to the founders of this journal, Dr. Paul
Robertson and Dr. John Adamson for the opportunity they have
opened to our teachers and students in the Philippines who are doing
research in the field of second language acquisition and learning.
We are also honored to feature some of the studies done by our
esteemed colleagues from De La Salle University-Manila; College of
St. Benilde and the University of Santo Tomas.
The first article on metalinguistic awareness of pre-school
children was a study done by Shirley Dita. Her paper focuses on how
the degree of bilingualism affects metalinguistic awareness of
preschool Filipino children. It contrasts partial and full bilinguals’
performance in three tests: language arbitrariness test, phonological
awareness. In general, she found that full bilinguals outscored the
partial bilinguals in the three metalinguistic awareness tests.
The second article was done by Johnny Amora and Alejandro
Bernardo. The study aims to test and refine the L2 vocabulary
learning strategies inventory using the Rasch model.
Ariane Borlongan’s article examines the language use,
attitudes, and identity in relation to Philippine English among young
generation Filipinos. The findings reveal that most domains of use
and verbal activities are dominated by English as the language of
current usage and prestige.
Leah Gustilo’s study investigates how writing should be
viewed as multiprocesses. She analyzed sentence-level errors and
suggests ways for pedagogical enhancement within the classroom
context and experiences of writers.
And finally, Carlo Magno presents a very interesting study on
how Filipino college students first learned to speak their second
language, English. The study presented how several theories may
help account how a second language is acquired and how several
factors may aid in the learning of English at the early stage of
linguistic development.
Rochelle Irene G. Lucas
Editor
Philippine ESL Journal
Volume 3. July 2009.
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Special Issue on ESL Acquisition and Learning
Articles
Foreword. Rochelle Irene Lucas, Editor, Philippine ESL Journal
1. Shirley Dita. The Metalinguistic Awareness of Filipino Bilingual Children
2. Johnny Amora and Alexandro Bernardo. Testing and Reducing L2 Vocabulary Learning Strategies Inventory
Using Rasch Model
3. Ariane Macalinga Borlongan. A Survey on Language Use, Attitudes, and Identity in Relation to
Philippine English among Young Generation Filipinos: An Initial
Sample from a Private University
4. Leah Espada-Gustilo. Sentence-level Errors in ESL Writers’ Diagnostic Essays:
What students have achieved and what we can do.
5. Carlo Magno. How I Learned to Speak English?: Factors Involved in ESL
Acquisition among Filipinos
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