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Foreword
The current edition of the Philippine ESL Journal features very
interesting articles from faculty members and students from De La
Salle University-Manila and Mahidol University, Thailand. The
Philippine ESL journal is greatly honored to be a new venue for
submissions from teachers and students of their various research on
language teaching, second language acquisition and learning.
The first article from Lucas et al. presents the intrinsic
motivations that compel students in learning the English language in
selected tertiary institutions in Manila. It was found that students are
intrinsically motivated to learn speaking and reading skills via IM
knowledge and accomplishment. The results suggest that these
learners are motivated to learn these communicative skills because
they find these skills interesting and relevant to their learning.
Moreover, the knowledge of these communicative skills seems to help
them achieve their learning goals from which they will benefit from
the future.
The second article written by Gustilo looks into the
distribution and the functions of the semantic classes of adverbial
clauses in the different organizational sections of L2 research articles
in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching. The paper
recommended that more studies be done such that the utilization of
adverbial clauses in different genres of discourse can be explored and
comparisons of findings can be done across genres and across
languages.
The third article presented by Barrot examines the accuracy
order of selected grammatical morphemes in students’ narrative and
expository essays and its implications for language teaching. The
results suggest that the accuracy order of selected morphemes in the
monitored written compositions of Filipino adult language learners
presented variation from the established accuracy order in
unmonitored language use (Villiers and de Villiers, 1973, Dulay and
Burt, 1973/1974, and Bailey, Madden and Krashen, 1974). Moreover,
the study presents some pedagogical implications of the accuracy
order for syllabus design and national curriculum development.
Siregar’s article investigates Indonesian students’ attitudes
toward American English, British English and Englishes in Southeast
Asia (Philippine English, Singaporean English, and Malaysian
English), and their various contexts of use in Indonesia. The result of
the study which seems to agree with previous studies (Giles 1970,
Ryan et al. 1984, Garrett et al. 2003, Hiraga 2005), suggests that
learners have more positive attitudes toward types of English which
have a more prestigious status.
The fifth article written by Go and Miraflores, focuses on how
the whole object assumption is superseded by mutual exclusivity.
These are some language learning constraints that aid young children
in their development of speech. The results of the study yield very
interesting results such as: (1) striking colors and brightly colored
patterns are observed to influence young children’s perception of
whole objects; (2) mutual exclusivity is only applied to novel word
learning which is salient depending on the cognitive maturity of
children and finally, joint reference is less significant in word learning
as children develop verbally and are less dependent on linguistic
cues.
I wish to thank Dr. Paul Robertson for bringing to the country
this very important online journal as a new venue to showcase the
research done by teachers and students. Kudos to Dr. Carlo Magno,
the Editor of this journal, for his commitment to the propagation of
research in second language acquisition and learning and language teaching in the Philippines.
Volume 4. February 2010.
PDF E-book version Editorial Board
1. Foreword.
Rochelle Irene Lucas, Editor, Philippine ESL Journal PDF
2. Rochelle Irene Lucas, Dennis Pulido, Edna Miraflores, Aileen Ignacio,
Manuelito Tacay and Janifer Lao. A Study on the Intrinsic Motivation Factors in Second Language
Learning Among Selected Freshman Students PDF
3. Leah. E. Gustilo. “Although if is more frequent than whether...”: An Analysis of the Uses
of Adverbial Clauses in Philippine English Research PDF
4. Jessie S. Barrot. Accuracy Order of Selected Grammatical Morphemes in the Monitored
Written Compositions of Filipino Adult Language Learners PDF
5. Fenty L. Siregar. The Language Attitudes of Students of English Literature and D3
English at Maranatha Christian University toward American English,
British English and Englishes in Southeast Asia, and their various
contexts of use in Indonesia PDF
6. Diana Ilishera A. Go and Edna S. Miraflores. The Effects of Joint Reference and Mutual Exclusivity on the
Application of Whole-Object Assumption in Filipino Preschoolers PDF
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