Mary Joy Vailoces Sienes is an ESL Teacher at Vinschool Secondary School, Times City, Hanoi, Vietnam.  She is a Ph. D in TESOL candidate at Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines.   She has been an English teacher for more than 12 years in the Philippines, Bahrain and Vietnam.  Her interest includes qualitative research especially in the line of pragmatics and discourse analysis.