17Jul 2017

COHESIVE DEVICES USED IN ENGLISH AND PILIPINO EXPOSITORY ESSAYS BY YOUNG ADULT FILIPINOS.

  • Cavite State University ? Tanza Campus, Philippines.
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The study used quantitative methodology and cross-sectional approach to determine cohesive devices used in English and Pilipino expository essays by Filipino college freshmen. These were correlated with raw scores they obtained. It revealed the cohesive devices they were supposed to use and those they frequently use or misuse. It found out why they ignored certain cohesive device. Instruments were used to elicit substantial results. Percentage, Pearson r and one-factor ANOVA were used for analysis. The outputs were correlated using t-test for dependent or correlated means. Cohesives used were mostly definite articles, pronoun references and place and time markers, transitions, with support/evidence and cause and effect types. Cohesives were misused and abused only in the English essay. Cohesives used were those only known to them or what they only remembered. There was a very high positive correlation between the number of words used and the reference cohesion in the essays; a moderately small positive correlation between the total words used over the transitions; a moderately small positive correlation between the total words used to the raw score; and significant effect of reference cohesion, transition and raw scores. T-test showed a negative difference between students? English and Pilipino essays.

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[Noel B. Manarpiis. (2017); COHESIVE DEVICES USED IN ENGLISH AND PILIPINO EXPOSITORY ESSAYS BY YOUNG ADULT FILIPINOS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 234-245] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Noel B. Manarpiis
Cavite State University – Tanza Campus, Philippines

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4711      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4711

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