VISION

A premier multi-disciplinary technological university.

MISSION
The university shall primarily provide advanced professional and technical instruction for special
purposes, advanced studies in industrial trade, agriculture, fishery, forestry, aeronautics and land-
based programs, arts and sciences, health sciences, information technology and other relevant
fields of study. It shall also undertake research and extension services and provide progressive
leadership in its areas of specialization. (SEC. 2 of R.A. 9744)

GOALS
The university shall produce scientifically and technologically oriented human capital equipped
with appropriate knowledge, skill and attitude. It shall likewise pursue relevant research,
strengthen linkage with the industry, community and other institutions and maintain sustainable
technology for the preservation of the environment.

OUTCOMES
1. Relevant, effective and quality education for sustainable growth;
2. Access to quality education for the underprivileged students;
3. Relevant research for economic, environment and sustainable development;
4. Expanded community engagement; and
5. Effective and efficient management of resources.

REFLECTION
After analyzing the Vision, Mission, Goal and Outcomes of Cebu Technological
University, the school or the institution itself is really striving hard to be the first or top of
academic excellence. It made me realize that we have to strive hard to achieve such goal. Being
able to study in CTU is a privileged and a big opportunity that I must not take for granted. As a
student in this institution it’s my duty and a must to make my Alma mater proud in the near
future. Cebu Technological University will help me to study, learn and grow to become a
professional with heart. After reading and understanding, it makes me motivate to do well, better
and best while studying here in CTU. It also makes me visualize myself as a professional
licensed teacher in the future. And someday, I can repay and make my alma mater proud and will
never forget how this university helps me and mold me to become who I am that day.

Name: Chrisibelle C. Legaspi BSED-ENGLISH September 1, 2019

Glossary of Terms
o Creole – based on Collins dictionary, is a language that has developed from a mixture of different languages and has
become the main language in a particular place.
o Discourse Analysis – According to Deborah Tannen, defines it as “the analysis of language ‘beyond the sentence’.
-the study of language of sentences; the analysis of features of language that extend beyond the
limit of a sentence.
o Language –according to the American linguists Bernard Bloch and George L. Trager, a language is a system of
arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.
 -based on Oxford dictionary, language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written,
consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way; a system of communication used by a
particular country or community.
o Lingua Franca -according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, any of various languages used as common or commercial
tongues among peoples of diverse speech.
o Linguistic - is the study of language - how it is put together and how it functions.
o Morphology -is a branch of linguistics which deals with the study of words; precisely the study of the internal
structure of words. The German linguist, August Schleicher, first made use of the term to describe the study of the
form of words.
o Pidgin –according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a simplified speech used for communication between people with
different languages.
o Phonetics - that studies speech sounds. It deals with how we produce speech sounds and how we perceive speech
sounds. . ( Hockett C. F. (1960))
o Phonology- a major branch of linguistic, deals with sounds of a language. It is the study of the patterns of sounds in a
language. It deals with how speech sounds are organized and used in a language; especially how the sounds are
organized in the mind and how they are used to convey meaning. . ( Hockett C. F. (1960))
o Psycholinguistics - the study of the mental mechanisms that make it possible for people to use language. It is a
scientific discipline whose goal is a coherent theory of the way in which language is produced and understood. (Alan
Garnham, in his book Psycholinguistics: Central Topics)

o Pragmatics –Pragmatics focuses on what implied meanings, that is what people mean when they make use of
language. Semantics deals with what a word means while Pragmatics deals with what is meant by a word.

- Pragmatics focuses on what implied meanings, that is what people mean when they make use of
language. Semantics deals with what a word means while Pragmatics deals with what is meant by a
word. . (Hockett C. F. (1960))

o Semantics - is the study of meaning. Semantics is the study of meaning in terms of words and sentence relationships.
( Hockett C. F. (1960))

o Semiotics - Ferdinand de Saussure defines it as the study of ‘the life of signs within society’.

- Charles Sanders Peirce defines a sign as “something which stands to somebody for something”. He believes
that a sign can never have a fixed meaning because we have to constantly qualify what meaning means.

o Sociolinguistics - is an interface between sociology and linguistics or language and the society. This accounts for the
definition of sociolinguistics as the study of patterns and variations in language within a society or community.
Sociolinguistics, another branch of linguistics, focuses on the way people use language to express social class, group
 status, gender, or ethnicity, and it looks at how they make choices about the form of language they use. ( Hockett C. F.
(1960))
o Stylistic - Stylistics is the study of textual meaning. Stylistics deals with style and its consequent meaning. Stylistics is
the study of linguistic styles in a language. It is the use of linguistic tools to arrive at the meaning of an utterance or a
text. ( Hockett C. F. (1960))
o Syntax -Edward J. Vajda informs us that ‘Syntax’ is a derivative of the Greek word syntaxis, which means
arrangement. Syntax deals with phrase and sentence formation out of words. Syntax is the study of the arrangement
of words in sentences, clauses, and phrases; it is also the study of the formation of sentences and the relationship
between their component parts