RESEARCH PAPER IN PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY JPLPC MALVAR VALENCIA 1 A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF FILIPINO TEACHERS’ FACEBOOK CONVERSATION Cyrelle Ann Kae Salmin Valencia College of Industrial Technology- Batangas State University JPLPC Malvar cyrellev21@gmail.com ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION In the last few years, different social media platforms have been used and introduced all over the world. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Tiktok and so much more. Out of these social media platforms, the most widely used in the world is Facebook. It is global, connecting each individual to another, from this place to another place. It makes life easier in terms of communication and entertainment. One get to know more people around the globe, stay in touch with their friends and family, and keep updated to work anytime. It is primarily used to as a place to exchange thoughts, ideas, experience, information, perceptions and perspectives. One of the professions that mostly use this platform is the teachers. Nowadays, Facebook increasingly embedded the lives of each teacher. It is their means to connect with their students, co-workers, and family personally and formally. Generally, it is used This paper aimed to analyze the Filipino Teachers’ Facebook conversation using Halliday’s Theory. Specifically, to present and explain the themes generated from Facebook conversation and to identify the factors that influence the teachers’ attitudes and behaviour towards Facebook conversation. This study used a descriptive-qualitative research. The corpus subjected to analysis for this attempt is the Facebook conversation of Filipino teachers taken from Facebook group TeacherPH. It used verbal interpretation to analyze the data gathered, coding and categorization of topics. It is conclude that there are factors that affect the attitude and behavior of the teachers that may lead to certain errors and misinterpretation in a conversation. Keywords: Discourse Analysis, Filipino Teacher, Facebook Conversation