Factors Affecting the Use of Language Registers in Writing among English as a Second Language Students

Conference: The Asian Conference on Education (ACE2022)
Title: Factors Affecting the Use of Language Registers in Writing among English as a Second Language Students
Stream: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics (including ESL/TESL/TEFL)
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
Authors:
Alexander Ibni, Zamboanga Peninsula Polytechnic State University, Philippines

Abstract:

Language register analysis gives important bases that may help understand the linguistic features of any register that are generally determined by such factors as social occasion, context, purpose, and audience. For this reason, the main objective of the current investigation was to determine the factors affecting the use of language registers in writing among ESL students and describe which among these factors are the most significant in the context of English as a second language that may contribute to the development of students’ writing competence. To determine these factors, a descriptive qualitative research design was utilized in this study by which Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was conducted with seven ESL college students. Thus, Based on Biber’s Framework of Situational Analysis of Language Register, the results of this study revealed that there were 7 factors elicited from the respondents during the discussion. These are the following: 1) participants’ social characteristics; 2) communicative purpose, and expression of stance: 3) topic-specific topic; 4) relations among participants; relative status or power; 5) the setting in which the communication takes place; 6) vocabulary and grammar and; 7) participant’s culture and first language. Most importantly, in addition to Biber’s Framework of Situational Analysis of language registers, this study highlights a great contribution to the field of applied linguistics as it concedes that in the context of second language teaching and learning, the participants’ culture and first language are regarded as among significant factors affecting the use of language registers that should be taken into account in order to improve the ESL students’ writing competence.

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