Ariel Robert Canoy Ponce

De La Salle University | DLSU · Department of English and Applied Linguistics

As Phillipson warned, “[l]inguistic imperialism [is] alive and kicking” and has become even more subtle in an era when English has become the global lingua franca . With this, this conceptual paper aims to propose features of linguistic neo-imperialism by describing how English has continuously spread and retained its power in various domains parti...

In this chapter, we looked into the practice of news viewing among students, who regularly viewed both the local and national editions of one of the leading televised news. We found that while news viewing gratifies their social needs, the news presented a stereotype that they did not identify with and deepened cultural identities rather than promo...

News stories carry boundary setting language that constructs nations as homogenous imagined communities and furthers the us-vs-them metanarrative that separates those who belong to one nation from those who do not. However, it may be possible that boundary-setting representations may be applied to groups within the nation-state. This article explor...

Mother Tongue Education (MTE) in the Philippines seeks to educate learners from kindergarten to 3rd grade using their mother tongues. However, in Linguistically Diverse Contexts (LDCs) where multiple mother tongues are spoken, a lingua franca is nominated as the alternative MOI. Against this backdrop, our study explores the language attitudes of mu...

This study explored the syntactic and semantic analysis of if-conditional sentences in the International Corpus of English (ICE). Using the three corpora of Asian varieties of English such as ICE-PHI (PhilE), ICE-HK (HKE), and ICE-SING (SingE) that have 6,375 if- conditional sentences in total, structural analysis of the corpus revealed that the si...

Social Networking Sites (SNS) have been a platform to many types of self-expression of its users including complaints, frustrations, and disappointments to people, events, and even customer service. These, too, have been used by corporations to reach out to their clientele especially when addressing problems and extending apologies. Thus, this pape...

Social Networking Sites (SNS) have been a platform to many types of self-expression of its users including complaints, frustrations, and disappointments to people, events, and even customer service. These, too, have been used by corporations to reach out to their clientele especially when addressing problems and extending apologies. Thus, this pape...

During the first year of teaching, beginning teachers need assistance in the form of support as they traverse the different stages of professional development (Farell, 2002). With this, guidance and tutelage from colleagues and administrators are found to be helpful to alleviate stress in teaching and strengthen retention among teachers (Ingersoll...