The Good, The Best, The New, And The Beautiful: Pattern Notation of High Frequency Adnominals Used in Philippine Blogs on Food, Travel, and Fashion
Keywords:
corpus linguistics analysis, adnominals, high frequency words, blogging, ESL/EFL instructionAbstract
Adnominals are present in everyday communication and play a relevant role in discourse at all domains within the verbal communicative contexts. However, quite a number of students or second language learners and speakers of the English language tend to manifest deficiency in the use of adnominals in real communication setting. This study is aimed at providing a linguistic description on the use of adnominals in the essays or blog articles in three domains: food, fashion, and travel. This study employs linguistic corpus analysis on authentic texts, i.e., blog entries from the internet by Filipino bloggers whose first language is any of the Philippine languages. Results poses potential input and an effective instructional strategy in ESL or EFL classes.
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