1 English Loanwords in Select Cebuano-Visayan News Dailies: Syntax and Language Acculturation Analysis Desiree Dawn P. Justol ABSTRACT Language Acculturation is a continuing development in which a word infuses in a speech community and grow into part of the people's linguistic range. The more speakers become familiar with the a newly loanword, its characteristics gradually accommodate to its own linguistic system. This paper aimed to show relevance of linguistic acculturation of English loanwords in Cebuano-Visayan. The analysis of the paper involved news article description as it shows the direct evidence of daily literary record of language in terms of syntax, identification of loanwords and its categories and its linguistic acculturation. The results proved that English loanwords in Cebuano-Visayan are acculturated through orthographic nativization and even really the exact English terms which is believed with no precise and direct translation in Cebuano-Visayan form. Thus, the study recommended that there is a need to conduct more parallel comprehensive research about the English loanwords as part of Structural borrowings in Cebuano-Visayan language. Keywords: English Loanwords, language acculturation, local news article, Cebuano-Visayan words 1.0 INTRODUCTION Loanwords are borrowed words adopted by the speakers of one language from the source language. It refers to the process of speakers applying words within a speech community from the one these words originated. The assimilation of English loanwords to Cebuano-Visayan language shows language acculturation. This occurrence is a result when speech communities having different cultures come into continuous first-hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original culture patterns of either or both groups (Redfield, Linton and Herskovits, 1936). Acculturation most commonly occurs with a member of a minority culture being exposed to a majority culture, such as the situation with an immigrant moving into a new country. Undeniably, Americans took over the Philippines for 48 years, starting from December 10, 1898, the signing of the Treaty of Paris, to July 4, 1946. This includes the Commonwealth period. The years of