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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The researchers would like to express their sincerest appreciation and

immeasurable gratitude to the following persons for their patience and willing
assistance and whose innovative ideas contributed to the fulfilment of the study.

To our beloved parents, for their patience and understanding; for the
financial support, as well as their moral and spiritual guidance which contributed
significantly to the completion of this work;

To our adviser, (Adviser) for her efforts and full support, for sharing her
ideas and to of her concern into this paper as well as her encouragement during the
whole research process.

To the chairperson, (chairperson), for imparting her expertise and

recommendations to improve the study;

To the members of the panel, (Panel member) for giving meaningful

suggestions and insights to the improvement of the entire study.

To (Statistician), their statistician, for helping them, in the analysis and

interpretation of data gathered;

To (Research Instructor), their Research 2 instructor, for his support and

encouragement to the researchers in pursuing further interest for the improvement
of this paper;

To their grammarian, (Grammarian), for her expert assistance and time

rendered for editing and improving the research paper;

To the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, (Dean), for being our
inspiration as we undertake the obstacles in finishing the research paper;
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To (Previous Researcher) for giving her permission to extend her study to

the researchers;

To the librarians of (University), for assisting the researchers with the use
of pertinent materials needed in their study;

To the respondents, for their full cooperation in answering the

questionnaires; and

To everybody else who had contributed financially and morally in order for
the researchers to finish the work. We cannot thank you all enough.