Tarrayo, an academic researcher of the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education and an academic staff of the Faculty of Arts and Letters and the Graduate School, highlighted that challenges to intersectionality included resistance, institutional barriers, teacher preparation, and emotional labor. Tarrayo recommended addressing these to achieve the ultimate aim of equity and inclusion in language teacher education. The review covered identities pertaining to race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, linguistic, and professional and cultural. The new is found in the journal Language, Culture, and Curriculum.

Among Tarrayo’s related works are “Gendered Word (Or World): Sexism in Philippine Preschool English Language Textbooks” (Journal on English Language Teaching) and “Exploring the gender perspective in English language teaching (ELT): Voices from ELT practitioners in Philippine Higher Education Institutions” (with Rafaella Potestades and Mark Ulla, in the journal Sexuality & Culture).

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Awardees will receive a trophy, citation for accomplishments, a lifetime honorary membership in APCoRE, and research grants (subject to the approval of submitted proposals). The award was named after the Founding Chairman of APCoRE and recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of individuals in the areas of Education and Research.

Tarrayo, an academic researcher of the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education, publishes studies mainly on English language teaching and has also authored works on stylistics and gender-related issues. The full list of his works can be viewed on his .

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Tarrayo’s articles, which appeared in the Scopus-indexed journal Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, are entitled “” (co-authored with Rafael Michael O. Paz and Emejidio C. Gepila, Jr.) and “” (co-authored with Ali G. Anudin).

Tarrayo’s studies aimed to address “the lacuna in the literature concerning English language teachers’ perceptions of the shift from the classroom to online teaching,” specifically in the Philippine context where no study had been published up until that point.

Data revealed the challenges noted were perceived to be minor, though varied. “[The] most crucial concerns include comprehension of learning content, student engagement, and internet connectivity, which were likewise claimed by the participants as disadvantages of FL. The analysis also revealed two benefits: convenience, and enhancement of teaching and learning,” Tarrayo’s paper found.

In relation to English language teachers’ experiences in flexible learning, Tarrayo and his co-authors also researched about materials development in response to this “underexplored area of research.” Findings revealed that a blend of following university guidelines and using one’s own creativity and resourcefulness was used by teachers, who ensure collaboration among learners.

Tarrayo, who is also a researcher at the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education, conducts studies on English language teaching, stylistics, and the intersection of language and gender.

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Applying stylistics on the work “Tulle, Chiffon, Organza” by Thomasian writer Carlomar Arcangel Daoana, Tarrayo investigated the following stylistic aspects: lexical categories, grammatical categories, figures of speech, and context and cohesion. Tarrayo then suggested teaching and learning activities based on the stylistic analysis of flash fiction pieces, to help fill the gap in local studies on the matter.

The chapter was published in the book “.” It was edited by Faud Abdul Hamied of the Indonesia University of Education and was published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Linguists from Japan, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and China, among others, contributed chapters to the book.

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With the theme “Changes and Chances in English Language teaching (ELT),” the conference tackled papers from several ELT field including linguistics, literacy, literature, culture and intercultural issues, and other related fields.

As one of the 55 paper presenters from Asia, Europe, and North America, Tarrayo, who is a member of the English Department, presented his paper titled “Exploring the Coalescence of Language and Literature through a Stylistic Analysis of a Filipino-authored Flash Fiction.” Flash fiction is a story characterized by being very short, typically consisting of only a few hundred words despite offering plot and character development. In his presentation, Tarrayo explained that language and literature should team up for their mutual benefit in interpreting literary pieces since linguistics is indispensable in understanding the structure and the effects of a given literary piece. Through a stylistic analysis of the flash fiction piece “Earth-bound” written by renowned Filipino author Cyan Abad-Jugo in the anthology “Fast Food Fiction Delivery,” edited by Noelle Q. De Jesus and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, Tarrayo was able to delve into the link between linguistics and literature.

By deciphering the language code of the text in terms of lexical and grammatical categories as textual features, the study concluded that flash fiction’s core brevity is not a limitation, but a strength. The short length can, according to Tarrayo, “not only hook the readers but may propel them to concentrate on the power of language, association, and inference. Likewise, the symbolic weight carried by flash fiction drives the narrative forward, and the gaps within and around the story become big ideas in a small space.” To examine the textual features and linguistic cues used in the flash fiction piece on different levels, language structure at the semantic, syntactic, phonological, and pragmatic levels had to be taken into account.

This meant scouring the entirety of the text for all possible linguistic features that complement specific literary insights. The analysis included a description of the formal features of the text and its functions in relation to the literary interpretation, Tarrayo discussed through an e-mail interview.

One of the pedagogical implications of the research work is that critical reading and appreciation of flash fiction pieces can be developed in students by literature and language teachers alike through engaging them in activities that utilize stylistics as an approach to literary interpretation. Tarrayo gave some examples, “By using a flash fiction piece, a teacher can assist the students in identifying foregrounded ideas out of words that can grouped under specific semantic fields; in this manner, the students operate on the associative language of flash fiction and develop their ability to surmise what is beyond the power of denotative meanings.

“Introducing students to analyzing varied sentence types and the mixture of long embedded sentences with terse short ones, or statements with incomplete or elliptical statements can challenge the students to make inferences about the character(s) and the mood of a narrative, Tarrayo added. Through the stylistic approach of stimulating their sensitivity to recognizing language features and techniques in writing flash fiction, “the students are placed in the context of ‘reading like a writer,’ which canperhaps make them realize that although flash fiction is about brevity and quickness, it is so demanding a form, and writing one can only be attained through a long process of elimination, selection, and concentration,” Tarrayo reasoned out.

Tarrayo’s interest in analyzing such works stemmed from its potential to “contribute to the fields of literary and language studies by offering possible ways on how to examine the “baffling” language code of Filipino flash fiction brought about by its brevity as a unique quality and its unconventional techniques of narration. The required minimalism of the flash fiction genre forces a compression of words and space on a page and demands urgency and profundity among readers. Moreover, flash fiction is about ambiguity; it is a genre that best works via understatement, purposeful ambiguity, implication, and evocative or suggestive language. Unlocking such a baffling language code can be done through looking into stylistic features that lend themselves well in describing flash fiction’s linguistic choices and interpretability,” he explained.

Tarrayo currently serves as the Editor in Chief of the Asian Journal of English Language Studies, the official peer-reviewed, open-access, annual academic journal of the UST Department of English. He also handles classes in the Faculty of Arts and Letters and the UST Graduate School.

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The UST Journal Affairs Committee is headed by the UST Secretary-General Rev. Fr. JesĂșs Miranda, Jr., O.P., Ph.D. It is composed of the respective chief editors of the academic journals published by the various units of the University.

Through this committee, UST aims to intensify its support for the maintenance of these journals by bringing them together in a single official online portal, providing editors with technical and financial
assistance, guiding editors in maintaining quality assurance and professionalizing the respective editorial boards, among others. Now that the various UST academic journals are under one common platform, it will be easier for researchers to access content and information about the journals, specifically the respective submission and publication policies of each publication.

Moreover, featuring various academic journals from different disciplines is an indication of the University’s commitment to knowledge production and dissemination, as well as the recognition of the academic efforts of the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and health sciences.

One of the goals of the UJAC is the eventual adoption of a University Open Access (OA) Policy, through which all academic journals identified with UST will be published in Open Access platforms, which means that all published articles will be made freely available to the public The “UST Journals Online Portal” can be accessed through http://journals.ust. edu.ph.

The journals included in the online portal are: Acta Manilana, published by the Research Center for the Natural Sciences and edited by Prof. Emeritus Fortunato Sevilla, Ph.D; Antoninus Journal, published by the UST Graduate School and edited by Prof. Rey Donne Papa, Ph.D.; Asian Journal of English Language Studies published by the Department of English and edited by Asst. Prof. Veronico Tarrayo, Ph.D.; Hasaan published by the Department of Filipino and edited by Prof. Imelda De Castro, Ph.D. and Assoc. Prof. Zendel Rosario Taruc, Ph.D.; Journal of Medicine ŸĆÉ« published by the Faculty of Medicine and edited by Prof. Raymond Rosales, M.D., Ph.D.; Journal of Social Health published by the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education and edited by Asst. Prof. Maria Carinnes Alejandria Gonzalez; Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy published by the Department of Philosophy and edited by Prof. Paolo Bolaños, Ph.D.; Philipiniana Sacra published by the Ecclesiastical Faculties and edited by Rev. Fr. JesĂșs Miranda, Jr., O.P., Ph.D.; Philippine Journal of Allied Health Sciences, published by the College of Rehabilitation Sciences and edited by Mr. Ivan Neil Gomez; TomĂĄs, published by the Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies and edited by Assoc. Prof. Ralph Semino GalĂĄn; UNITAS, the 96-year-old international research journal published by the Department of Literature and edited by Prof. Maria Luisa Torres Reyes, Ph.D.

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Tarrayo’s paper recognized the gradual popularization of flash fiction as a literary genre, which, despite its rising prominence, has not been extensively explored in literary studies. Tarrayo’s paper used Leech and Short’s (2007) schema and attempted to decipher the language code of the said text in terms of the following features: lexical categories, grammatical categories, figures of speech, and context and cohesion. The analyzed piece was Gemino H. Abad’s “Bettina.”

Tarrayo serves as a member of the editorial board of the , the official research journal of the Department of English.

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