Vocabulary and Cultural Details in Grade 7 Philippine Literary Texts: Content Analysis

This study analyzed the Vocabulary and Cultural Details in Grade 7 Philippine Literary Texts: Content Analysis. Using content analysis, the relational/semantic vocabulary of eight (8) literary texts from the Grade 7 Philippine Literature Textbook were analyzed. Based on the findings, the vocabulary contents in Philippine literary texts reveals significant cultural details that reflect the attitude, beliefs and experiences of the Filipinos with influences of the Spanish and Chinese cultures. Moreover, the semantic meaning of cultural details of the Philippine literary texts were about the lives of Filipinos including arts, codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behavior, such as law and morality, and systems of beliefs. The Cultural details of Philippine Literary Texts belongs to a Highcontext culture. This communication uses underlying context, meaning, and tone in the message, and not just the words themselves wherein the information is often implied based on the situation, as in many Asian cultures just like the Philippines. The theoretical implication and output of this study is Vocabulary and Culture: A Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (Vac-MALL) in literature through a DIGITAL SIM: VocLiTure (Vocabulary, Literature and Culture), an eBook for Grade 7 Learners.