The Good Samaritan Colleges

Graduate School
READING ABILITY BASIS FOR A PROPOSED ACTIVITY IN ENGLISH I AT
BARANGAY MILITAR HIGH SCHOOL, BARANGAY
MILITAR ,NUEVA ECIJA

A Thesis
Presented to
The Faculty of the Graduate School
The Good Samaritan colleges

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

For the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION

Presented by:
RACHEL S. AGASEN

October 2010

Chapter I
The Problem And Its Background
Introduction
The concept that students must acquire the know-how required for success in their
studies has gained in their studies has gained an increasing number of adherents among teachers
and administrators. These- know - how consist of students attitudes towards school. Their
study habits and skills make them interested to study and do important school activities including
school work and homework. Their study skills are the consistent pattern behavior that makes
them do the work in their classes. Skills are the efficient techniques required for their school
work. These include reading, listening , writing, research, test-taking and evaluation skills.
According to Somaloms (2005) every teacher has responsibility of teaching all her
students how to be successful in schools as they possibly do their work. The science or
mathematics tea charm for example cannot excuse herself from teaching her students how to read
the text for her course or subject because she feels that teaching reading is the job of English
teacher. The consensus that seems to be gaining is that any teacher who gives an assignment
must be ready to help her students acquire the attitudes, habits and skills that they need to do
their assignments properly.
At times some teachers wonder why the students in their classes do not seem to be
making any significant progress in their class work. One probable factor behind this situation is
that such teachers along with teachers of the preceding grades failed to help their students
acquired the needed attitudes toward school study habits and developed study skills. Teacher
must realize the acquisition and application by students of these attitudes, habits and study
skills constitute an important pathway to both successful learning and effective teaching.

Statement of the Problem

This study is entitled Reading ability Basis for a Proposed activity in English I.
Specifically this study seeks to answer the following questions:
1. How can the profile of the respondents be determined in terms of:
1.1 Age
1.2 Sex
1.3 Civil status
1.4 Highest Educational Attainment
1.5 Years of Teaching
1. What are the assessment of respondents-teachers to reading skills of First Year High
School in Barangay Militar High School?
2. What is the implication of the findings of the study to Proposed Activity in English I.?
Scope and Limitation of the Study
The study covers the assessment of Reading and skills of First Year High School
In Barangay Militar High School, Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija
A total of 12 High School teachers will be involved as respondents of this study from
whom data will be gathered. These teachers are teaching the different sections of first year in
the sudbject school.
Significance of the Study
The findings of this study will be beneficial to the following:
School Administrator for them to support the needs of the students who have low skills
and ability in reading.

Teachers in Reading for them to provide to the questions they have in mind even those
topics that have never been discussed before in the classroom to become an excellent teachers
and communicators. The findings of the study are important to them because they will gain
insight concerning the development of the students s reading skills and will be their basis for
their proposed activity in english I.

This insight may provide them with knowledge and

understanding on how they may teach students to develop reading skills in as well as in writing
problem solving, speaking, reciting poems and many others.
Students who failed in Reading Subject for them to know the recommendations offered
by the researchers in order to overcome barriers in reading.
First Year High School Students for them to get a lot of benefits from the study try
their best to improve and further develop their skills in reading

both English and other

languages.
Definitions of Terms
For a better and clearer understanding of the study the following are defined
operationally:
English language it is a second language among Filipinos, it is the language brought to
the Philippine by American and become the International Language.
Bilingual Policy Bilingual is defined operationally, as the separate uses of Filipino and
English as medium of instruction, implemented by the secretary of Education, Jaime S. Laya.
Factors it is anything that motivates someone to move emotionally or to bring about a
change.
Affect is anything brought about by a cause or agent power to bring about result.

Language expressing thought and feelings, the totality of words and methods of
obtaining words used by the people.
Teachers. A person employed in an official capacity for the purpose of guiding
and directing the learning experience of students or students in an education institution
School an educational institution which formal instruction is given also the instruction
itself.
Students . A person engaged in a course of study, especially one in secondary levels
Interest. Attention with a sense of concern, lively sympathy or curiosity also the power
to excite hold such attention
Learning. Knowledge obtained by study or from institution , scholarship erudition
Learning environment. It is where the students obtaining their knowledge and learning
particularly a classroom.

Chapter 2
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES
The literature preview provides the framework from which the study was developed. The
research documents were delimited on Assessment of Reading Skills of elementary students in
Rizal district elementary School.
Theoretical Framework
Teachers must acquire the know-how required for success in schools. This know how
consist of the students attitudes toward school, their habits and study skills. Study skills are the
efficient technique required by their school work. They include reading listening, speaking,
writing , information management research, test taking and evaluation skills.
The students reading remedial help should be provided with remedial exercise .elements
and appropriate their guide level can be provided with developmental or enrichment exercises
which will enable them to become more proficient in the skills they have already acquired on
which will help them learned new study skills.
In reading skills in subject areas, highly specific reading skills are needed for each
subject. Take time, therefore, to review the study skills that are especially important in the
subject matter area,

In science classes to follow directions, and in English classes, to

appropriate description, to understand the significance of figures of speech and to be aware of

style and the propose activity in English I.
Foreign Literature and Studies
English is commonly used as a medium for the communication of information and news.
Three quarters of all telex messages and telegrams are sent in English. English as 80 percent of
computer data are processed and stored in English. Much satellite communication is carried in

English five thousand newspapers, more than half of the newspapers published on the world, are
published in English. Even in many countries where English is a minority language, there is at
least one newspaper in English, in India alone, there was three thousand magazines published in
English. In many countries television news is broadcast in English, because of the power of
television, demonstrators in every country, use signs printed in English for the benefit of the
international press.
Teodorothy (2001) explained that the teacher should always develop the study skills of
the students to make them interested in school. Study skills, too, can be taught effectively only
after identifying their students are of weaknesses and levels of achievements by means of
appropriate tests. In addition to testing, the teacher can repeat request the students to prepare a
product, such as an outline or a report and then the strength and weaknesses of the product.
According to Theodorothy, students needing remedial help should be wielded with
remedial exercises. Those whose level of achievement is appropriate to their grade level can be
provided with development or enrichment exercises which will enable them to become more
proficient in the skills they have already acquired or which help them learn new study skills.
As pointed out by him, information on how to teach various types of study skills such as
reading skills, speaking skills, information, management skills, writing skills, test-taking skills
and evaluating skills, is provided in the remainder of the chapter two points to keep in mind
when teaching students to develop their knowledge, are hold frequent but short practice period,
and second provide students with immediate feedback on their progress during the practice
sessions.

Local Literature and Studies

Guansing (2001) states that the success in affecting learning. The experience of
successful teachers shows that anything done in the most efficient and effective way is
accomplished by certain methods of techniques. Anything done without techniques will entail
much waste of time, energy, and interest on the part of the teacher and the learner.
According to Serafin (1997), a teacher should be enthusiastic about his subject. An
instructors enthusiasm is a crucial factor in student motivation. If a teacher becomes bored or
apathetic, students will too. Typically, an instructors enthusiasm comes from confidence,
excitement about the content and genuine pleasure in teaching.
According to Serrano (1991) there are teachers who are not dedicated to their sworn duty,
they are lazy or so busy moonlighting that when they come to their classroom, they do not have
anymore interest left for their students. The result is poor teaching which the end results of these
is students failure to their subjects because the students under these teachers got bored they
dont enjoy their stay in the classroom, they become confused disorganization even host tile or in
different, they create all sorts of troubles and shenanigans in the classroom. They quarrel with
their classmates and friend to dislike the subjects. Under this circumstance, learning becomes
distasteful to the individual. It makes him feel unwanted and his alternative is to leave the subject
or the school as a whole, may be for good, only to find out next school year that he has grown
too old for the grade or year level.
According to Somalons (1999) developing students s reading skills means teaching
them to learn to read, to listen , to speak , write, to take tests, and evaluation skills. He stated
that a students attitudes are his views on the importance of school activities including class work
and home worked to his life goals. His study habits are the consistent patterns of behavior t he
used to do the work for his school works.

The writers believed that every teacher has the responsibility of teaching all her students
how to be successful in school as they possibly can be. The science teacher, for example, cannot
excuse herself from teaching her students how to read the text for her course because she feels
that teaching reading is the job of the English teacher. The consensus that seems to be gaining
ground is that any teachers who gives an assignment must be ready to help her students acquire
the reading skills that they need to do the assignment properly.
At times as pointed out by Somalons that some teachers wonder why the students in their
classes do not seem to be making any significant progress in their class work. One
Probable

factor

behind this situation is that

such teachers, along with teachers of the

preceding grades, failed to help their students acquire the needed attitudes toward school and
develop reading skills. Teacher must realize that the acquisition and application by students of
these skills constitute an aimportant pathway to both successful learning and effective teaching.
As pointed out by Tanchioco (1996) before you can help improve students reading
skills , you must find out what their present attitudes are. You can learn about your students
attitudes toward school by observing

their acti8ons and conversation.

You

should

administrators inventories which can be either teacher mode or commercially prepared or as

teacher. You may which to use open ended questions and to confer with individuals students.
Tanchioco expressed the view that the teacher should remember to help students sustain
proper skills throughout the year. Show them that it is important t for them to develop their
study skills to assure their learning success show to them also that their level of achievement is
continually important to you by inspecting their work having conferences with them about their
progress, meeting with some of them who have special difficulties, and [praise their

accomplishment. If students have failed, make them see that they are in a temporary slump and
discuss dhow they can help themselves to improve.
According to the study conducted by Pascual (2006) on the development of the listening
study skills of the study, it was found that one techniques the teacher can use to improve
students listening skills is to give them brief dictate a brief passage pertaining to her subject
matter and then check to see what the students have actually written.
The study revealed that by providing dictation drills on studentss areas of listening
difficulty throughout the years, the teacher can help focus their attention on specific English or
Pilipino sound and speech patterns, dictation exercises can be taped for students to use in the
learning laboratory during their study periods. After each dictation however, it was found that
the students should have the opportunity to compare and then the students listen to those sections
which he did not comprehend.
It was likewise found that to help the students become more efficient listeners introduce
them to the following guidelines.
a.

Persuade yourself that it is important to listen to the speaker,

b. Look at the speaker while he or she is talking

c. Try to ignore any distracting mannerism he or she may have; and
d. Concentrate on what the speaker is saying..

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