Generational Use of Binisaya in Dapitan: Implications for Education
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Mother Tongue, Nationalism, Cultural Preservation, Sebuanong BinisayaAbstract
The study was conducted to explore and analyze the reasons for language use and to review how the language operates as a vernacular through mixed methods research. The quantitative data were collected through an online survey, and the qualitative information was elicited through interview. The findings suggest that the term ‘putli’ is used more appropriately by the majority than the term ‘mapahiubsanon’. Respondents failed to use terms appropriately and barely use them because of their vernacular nonexistence. They verified using English alternatives to unfamiliar terms. Inappropriate language usage is attributed to the practices of their surroundings. The language was used since their younger days while they were still acquiring the first language, and they established the same language in their consciousness, which means they fully adopted the language they picked from their precedence without establishing awareness on the origin of the utterance. These words existed and had been in place long before they were born which suggests that the generation should be educated in their home language to do better in the later years of education, to become producers and consumers of knowledge.
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