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Record W4407709805 · doi:10.46932/sfjdv6n2-018

“It’s hard to speak Filipino, why is that?” a case study among non-Filipino speakers

2025· article· en· W4407709805 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Allen Amarilla, Larah Jane Aliporo, Manilyn Georfo, Khim Gerda Rañon, Sheryme Roylo, Manilyn Tonido

Bibliographic record

VenueSouth Florida Journal of Development · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersPartenariat Canadien Contre Le Cancer
KeywordsPsychologyLinguisticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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Environment plays an important role in developing language fluency. The environment includes the geographical location and significant people like parents, siblings, friends, and teachers. Geographically, the dialects fluently spoken at Central Philippine Adventist College are Hiligaynon, Cebuano, and English. As observed, the pupils of Central Philippine Adventist College Elementary School (CPACES) struggle with Filipino language fluency. Many cannot speak the Filipino language fluently which challenges their learning in classes using the Filipino language as a medium of instruction. This study aimed to determine the difficulties in speaking the Filipino language fluently among CPACES pupils. Purposive sampling was used. Five pupils were interviewed using validated guided questions. This study utilized a qualitative case study design. Specifically, the framework of Ranan was employed to analyze the data. The study found that the mother tongue of the CPACES non-Filipino speakers is English, and they had not been exposed to the Filipino language. This non-exposure and the absence of somebody motivating them to speak Filipino have led the participants' to hardly understand Filipino. Further, their parents did not introduce Filipino learning materials and do not speak Filipino. So, to help CPACES non-Filipino speakers to become fluent in Filipino language, parents and significant people surrounding them must intentionally use Filipino at home and school, and find ways to access Filipino reading materials, and converse with them using the Filipino language.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.039

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0160.006
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.056
GPT teacher head0.293
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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