Rhetorical Organization of Ilocano and Tagalog Pre-Service Teachers in Their Argumentative Essays

Autor/inn/en	Torres, Joel M.; Medriano, Ramon, Jr.
Titel	Rhetorical Organization of Ilocano and Tagalog Pre-Service Teachers in Their Argumentative Essays
Quelle	(2020), (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Discourse Analysis; Tagalog; Malayo Polynesian Languages; Writing (Composition); Contrastive Linguistics; Rhetoric; Essays; Persuasive Discourse; Undergraduate Students; Computational Linguistics; Cultural Influences; Language Usage; Foreign Countries; Preservice Teachers; Native Language; English (Second Language); Philippines + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Diskursanalyse; Schreibübung; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Rhetorik; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Computerlinguistik; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Sprachgebrauch; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Philippinen
Abstract	Cross-cultural study of rhetorical traditions as they exist or have existed in different societies around the world has been the focus of contrastive rhetoric. Studies in contrastive rhetoric in the past years confirm that culture is reflected in rhetorical patterns. Using the argumentative essays of 55 students from a state university in Central Luzon and following Liu's (2005) framework on the location of thesis statement, the present quantitative-qualitative study compares the discourse organizations in the placement of thesis statement in the argumentative essays of the three groups of tertiary students (Ilocano, Tagalog and mixed Ilocano and Tagalog), and determines if thesis statements' placement is dependent on one's language grouping. Analysis of the corpus revealed that participants from the three groups differ on their choices on where to write the thesis statements. There were more Tagalog participants who preferred the deductive pattern, while there were more Ilocano participants who preferred to write thesis statements in the middle. Meanwhile, there were more participants from the mixed-group who chose the inductive pattern. The interplay between culture and language use was discussed with focus on the distinct culture of Tagalog and Ilocano that are reflected in the discourse organization of their argumentative essays. [This paper was published in "Asian EFL Journal" v27 n2.2 p261-286 Apr 2020.] (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01