Greetings!

We, the Bachelor of Science in Accountancy of Our Lady of Fatima University are
conducting a study entitled the Filipinos who learned Second Language. We are asking for your
precious time and effort to answer all the questions in the questionnaire that are important
and helpful for the completion of the study

Rest assured that all the date gathered from you will be kept in the highest level of
confidentially.

Your positive response in the request will be variable contribution for the success of the
study and will highly appreciate.

Thank you so much for your cooperation.

Respectfully yours,

Alejo, Genevieve D.

Manila, Sheena Mae M.

Mendoza, Abigael G.

Salubre, Laurence Jelliane L.

Tomale, Elizabeth

1. How important is your second language in your daily life?

2. How often do you use your second language?

3. How do you develop your second language?

4. Who are the people who influence you to improve your second language?

5. What do you prefer first language or second language?

Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study

A Case Study Presented to the

College of Business in Accountancy

Our Lady of Fatima University

In Partial Fulfilment of the

Requirements for Purposive In Communication

Academic Year 2018- 2019

2nd Semester

Submitted by:

Alejo, Genevieve D.
Manila, Sheena Mae M.
Mendoza, Abigael G.
Salubre, Laurence Jelliane L.
Tomale, Elizabeth

Submitted to:
Mrs Lara
Professor

February 2019
 I. Introduction

Learning a second language is a way of life among the majority of Filipinos. The language

situation in the Philippines is complex. There are an estimated 73 to 130 languages and dialects

in the country. And today we live in a multilingual world that is becoming increasingly

globalized and it is therefore very important to know more than one language. This paper

examines the five different people who have acquired their second language. According to Glenn

(2019), knowing more than one language opens up the subjects prospects in a highly important

way. It is important to know more than one language is that it increases cultural awareness and

allows you to communicate with different people.. The Importance and Advantages of Learning

a Second Language. (2016), Language is one of the main components of the civilization and

culture of the people who speak it. Hence, learning a second language can be a comparatively

easy and wonderful way of absorbing another culture. According to Role of Language In Human

Life, Language is an abstract system of symbol and meanings. This system includes grammar

that relates meaning so that we can communicate with each other. As language plays very

important role in the development of a person personality. Not only in personality but by

learning more than one language it can develop person’s cognitive skills, learning more than one

language also important in social development of person.

This paper investigates the fact that whether second language acquisition is important to the five

participants who are Filipinos living in the Philippines and how it was developed. Primarily, this

study tried to answer the following questions:

1. How important is your second language in your daily life?

2. How often do you use your second language?

3. How do you develop your second language?

4. Who are the people who influence you to improve your second language?

5. What do you prefer first language or second language?

 II. Research Methodology

2.1 Research Design

The research is conducted through a qualitative method. Since this study’s main aim

was to determine and describe how the five adults acquired and develop their second

language t deemed appropriate to utilize the case study research design. A case study is an

“in depth study of a particular situation rather than a sweeping statistical survey.

2.2 Subject of the study and Research Locale

The subjects of this study are Prof. Domingo M. Lanuncia, Prof. April lidon, Mrs. Aida

Lee, Divine Lim and Maria Lourdes Legaspi. The five subjects were all adults. It consists of two

college students, two professors from Our Lady of Fatima University, and a grandmother from

Quezon City.

2.3 Data Collection

The researchers will first introduce themselves and will inform the respondents the

research topic and what they need to do or to answer. Each researcher gathered data using face

to face interview and ask their chosen respondents with their self-made questionnaire. The

researchers also used another method by using their smartphones to record the voice of each

participant to make it easier for them to analyze the data after conducting it. The discussion

among the subjects held in English. Both spoken and written data are analyzed and relate it to the

questions made.
 2.4 Analysis of Data

The collected date includes a video of the five respondents.The group was able to use

the questionnaire, the interview and empirical notes they taken while doing it. After the data

gathering process, the data was being analyzed manually by examining each of the interview

data coded.

III. Results

Table 1
Participants’ Profile
Name of the Prof. Domingo M. Prof. April lidon Mrs. Aida Divine Lim Maria Lourdes
participants Lanuncia Lee (student) Legaspi
(student)
1. What is Spanish Filipino Bisaya Mandarin Korean
your or Fukien
second
language
2. How I happened to It is important It is It’s very For me its very
learned Spanish because we know important important for important
important
because I stayed for that Filipino is my because i me because i because i can
is your 6 months in Spain. second language can use it in can easily
I had 2 months in for me, Filipino is any way communicate communicate
second
Italy. I also taught my second that is with my dad because of my
language several years in language it is possible for easily. second language
college. important we have me to
in your
a unity. Specially I understand
daily life? Especially as a am working in my family
Pilipino, I became Manila so that me and other
excited because and my student people who
most of the Filipino understand well also speaks
terms are derived our second
from Spanish. language

3. How often This time i only sometimes, i used Of course, i Sometimes Not always
have some occasion my second use it every when my
do you use
when i talk to some language day because family is
your sisters’ assign in it is there
the campus necessary
second
ministry.
language?
They speak Spanish
 so i also speak
Spanish to them.

4. How do I made a formal I develop it I develop it Because of

study because it’s through watching through our my family I develop it by
you
part of the Filipino movies parents watching k-
develop curriculum and i listening music because i dramas and by
mentioned earlier and also was raised the influenced
your
that i stayed for communicating in in our of other.
second 6months in Spain Filipino to the province.
likewise when i Filipino peoples
language?
came back from specially who live
Spain i taught here in Manila
Spanish in college
students.

5. Who are None, part of the the people who My family It’s also my My friends and
curriculum. My influence me to and other family family.
the people
major subject is improve my people
who foreign language second language whom i
and then i also friends and family encounter.
influence
happen to have an
you to opportunity to
study in Spain, so it
improve
was practically my
your own interest.
second
language?

6. What do Of course i love the For me, since I am I prefer My first First language
first language or from Zamboanga both, for me language because that is
you prefer
our natural del Sur I prefer to because a lot more
first language, though in using Bisaya but I understand of people i convenient to
the Philippines we can use also as many can speak use and I got
language
should learn more Filipino language people as with them used to it.
or second Filipino language possible. using that
but we are more language.
language?
attract to English
language.

The table shows that participants acquired different second language.

3.1 How important is your second language in your daily life?

Based on the answers, it is important to establish unity and understanding as well with other
people. It is important because Mrs. Lee can use it in any way that is possible for her to
understand her family and other people who also speaks their second language It’s very
important also because they can communicate well with other.

3.2How often do you use your second language?

Half of them said that they use it sometimes and the other half use it always.

3.3 How do you develop your second language?

The first professor we interview said to us that he only acquired his because he had an
opportunity to study which means that he get it when he is an adult. Some of them acquired it
through watching and communication. Mrs. Lee on the other hand acquired her second language
when she is still young same with Ms. Lim.

3.4 Who are the people who influence you to improve your second language?

Most of them answer their family and friends

3.5 What do you prefer first language or second language?

In the end they still prefer their first language than the second language they acquire.

Conclusions
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