INTERTEXTUALITY AND THE HEDGING SYSTEM OF THE FILIPINO ENGINEERING STUDENTS: PRACTICES AND PEDAGOGY
ABSTRACT: Communicators must
have a ‘pact’; right idea, equals the ‘right words’. Although text is taken
wholly to get to the meaning, every word contributes to the message sent for a
powerful effect to the receiver. For language to work, participants must
therefore be in full control of the words to be used. How these words are
framed or intertextualized brings the hedging system of the ESP students. To
achieve precision in ESP writing is not simply done by stringing words. To
effectively communicate, there are underlying principles to apply to improve
constant human interaction. In order to maintain such relationship in the
technical world, each participant must not totally eradicate the ‘feeling’ to
get across to the meaning. The study aimed at finding out the use of hedges and
the effects of task types caused by framing of ideas and whether these hedges
were significant to Filipino ESP writers. Common practices were identified as
well as some pedagogical implications in the writing of technical discourses.
Using introspection and contextual analysis, the researcher was able to analyze
hedges varying from words, phrases, to clauses. The researcher found
nonsensicality in intextualizing ESP texts and had no bearing on the hedging
system of the ESP writers.
Author: Susana Melon-Galvez
Journal Code: jppendidikangg170010
