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THE INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION ON

THE MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE OF THE
GRADE VIII QUEZON STUDENTS

An Undergraduate Thesis
Presented to the Faculty of the
College of Education
MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY
Buug, ZamboangaSibugay

In Partial Fulfillment of the

Requirements for the Degree of
Bachelor in Secondary Education (BSEd)
major in Mathematics

ARIAN REA L. BASOG

HONEY GRACE S. CABALLES
CHRISTIAN S. MANLANG
VANESSA JOYCE S. NAMOCO

May 2019
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Republic of the Philippines

MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY
BUUG CAMPUS
DatuPanas, Buug, ZamboangaSibugay

APPROVAL SHEET

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor in Secondary

Education major in Mathematics, this thesis entitled “THE INFLUENCE OF
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION ON THE MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE OF
THE GRADE VIII QUEZON STUDENTS” prepared and submitted by Arian Rea L.
Basog, Honey Grace S. Caballes, Christian S. Manlang and Vanessa Joyce S. Namocois
hereby recommended for acceptance and approval.

PROF. GINA D. TORRED

Thesis Adviser

Approved by the Committee on Oral Examination on ____________ with the

rating of ___________.

PROF. CAROL JANE C. SIOSE, MAEd ANGELITO A. RENDIZA, MAEd

Panel Member Panel Member

CHERRY ANNE P. GENOVIA, MAEd

Panel Member

Accepted and approved in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Mathematics.

ALDIN PAUL S. GENOVIA, Ed. D., JD.

Dean

__________________________________
Date
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The researchers would like to acknowledge and extend their profound gratitude

and appreciation to the following individuals whose endless support, encouragement,

inspiration, love, and prayers have contributed in making this work into reality.

First and foremost, the heartfelt immeasurable thanks to the Omnipotent and

Omnipresent Almighty God, the greatest source of wisdom, understanding, strength, love

and his constant blessings which turn this piece of work into success.

To the Dean of the College of Education, Dr.Aldin Paul S. Genovia for his

kindness in allowing the researchers to have access to the students in the collection of

data.

To the thesis adviser and editor, Prof. Gina D. Torred for her untiring efforts in

guiding, reading, strengthening the paper by making corrections to this work and giving

suggestions for the betterment of this paper and most of all, for her encouragements to the

researchers from the start to the end of the study which greatly contributed to the success

of this study.

To the statistician, Dr. MarioB.Torred for his guidance and advises in

interpreting, tabulating and analysing the data.

To the panel members, Prof. Carol Jane C. Siose, Prof. Angelito A. Rendiza, and

Prof. Cherry Anne P. Genovia for their time, valuable suggestions, and recommendations

that helped much in the completion of the study.

To the Principal of Mindanao State University- Buug Laboratory High School,

Prof.Rogayah M. Pangompig, for granting the researchers the permission to conduct their

study in her respective school.

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To the Grade VIII advisers and Mathematics teachers for granting the researchers

the permission to conduct the study and for their valuable assistance.

To the respondents of the study (Grade VIII- Quezon), for their warm welcome

when the researchers conducted the study and for their commendable cooperation and

participation which made this study a successful one.

To their family, friends and loved ones for their unending financial, spiritual, and

moral support, which became the influential strength of the achievement of this work,

they can say thanks for the faithful support in overseeing the operations of this work and

may God bless them in return.

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DEDICATION

This piece of work is dedicated to the teachers to help them in

improving their teaching strategies to improve

the students’ performance.

To the future math teachers or to those who aspire to become a teacher.

This study could enlighten them to the influences that language

of instruction have in the students’ performance.

To the students who are the main subject of this study.

Lastly, to the future researchers who will make this work one

of their related studies. May this humble piece of work help

you in any way and may this work be of some use.

Godbless.

- The researchers (VACH)

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ABSTRACT

Basog, Arian Rea L., Caballes, Honey Grace S., Manlang, Christian S., and
Namoco, Vanessa Joyce S., “THE INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
TO THE MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE OF THE GRADE VIII QUEZON
STUDENTS” Undergraduate Thesis. Mindanao State University-Buug Campus. April
2019.
Thesis Adviser: Prof. Gina D. Torred

Language play an important role in human lives especially in education, for this
“Language of Instruction’’ would greatly affect the student’s performance. In this study,
the participants were the Grade VIII Quezon students. To determine the influence of
language of instruction to the Mathematics performance of the participants, one of the
researchers conducted two separate classes, one of which usedbilingualism (mother
tongues and English) as a language of instruction and the other one is a class which used
English only as a language of instruction. After a thorough investigation, using t-test the
researchers came out with the following conclusions:

(1) the Mathematics performance of the students under the class using
bilingualism (mother tongue and English) as a language of instruction and the class using
English only as a language of instruction, based in pre-test result showed “high
performance” and also showed “high performance” based on the post test result.

(2) there is highly significant increase in the Mathematics performance of the

students both under the class using bilingualism (mother tongue and English) as a
language of instruction and the class using English only as a language of instruction
based on the pre-test and post test result,

(3) there is no significant difference on the Mathematics performance of the

students under the class using bilingualism (mother tongue and English) as a language of
instruction and the class using English only as a language of instruction.

Keywords: language of instruction English, mother tongue, mathematics

performance
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE i
APPROVAL SHEET ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iii
DEDICATION v
ABSTRACT vi
TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
LIST OF FIGURES ix
LIST OF TABLES x

CHAPTER I – THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE

Introduction 1
Theoretical Background 3
Conceptual Framework 5
Conceptual Paradigm 5
Statement of the Problems 6
Hypotheses 7
Significance of the Study 7
Scope and Limitation of the Study 8
Operational Definition of Terms 8
CHAPTER II – REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES
Related Literature 10
Related Studies 12
CHAPTER III – METHODOLOGY
Research Design 14
Locale of the Study 14
Sampling Procedure 14
The Participants of the Study 15
Research Instrument 16
Data Gathering Procedure 16
Statistical Tools Used 17
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CHAPTER IV – PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

OF DATA
Findings and Discussion 21
CHAPTER V – SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Summary 27
Findings 28
Conclusions 30
Recommendation 31
REFERENCES 32
APPENDICIES
A. Permission Letters 34
B. Questionnaires 40
C. Answer Keys 54
D. Lesson Plans 57
E. Scripts 66
F. Item Analysis of the Questionnaire Subject for Reliability 74
and Validity Test
G. Split-Half Methodology: Validity and Reliability Test 78
H. Computations 80
CURRICULUM VITAE 91
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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure Title Page

1 The Conceptual Paradigm 5

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LIST OF TABLES

Table No. Title Page

1 The Frequency Distribution of the Research Participants 15

2 Frequency Distribution of the Mathematics Performance of 21

the Students under the Class with Bilingualism (Mother Tongue
and English) as a Language of Instruction based on the Pre-test
Result

3 Frequency Distribution of the Mathematics Performance of 22

the Students under the Class with English only as a
Language of Instruction based on the Pre-test Result

4 Frequency Distribution of the Mathematics Performance of 22

the Students under the Class with Bilingualism (Mother
Tongue and English) as a Language of Instruction based on
the Post Test Result

5 Frequency Distribution of the Mathematics Performance of 23

the Students under the Class with English only as a
Language of Instruction based on the Post Test Result

6 Significant Increase in the Mathematics Performance of 23

the Students under the Class using Bilingualism (Mother
Tongue and English) as a Language of Instruction based
on the Pre-test and Post Test Results

7 Significant Increase in the Mathematics Performance of 24

the Students under the Class using English Only as
a Language of Instruction based on the Pre-test and Post
Test Results

8 Significance Difference in the Mathematics Performance 25

of the Students under the Class using Bilingualism (Mother
Tongue and English) as a Language of Instruction and the
Class using English only as a Language of Instruction