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| Assessing the Grammar Skills of Grade 8 Junior High School Students: Basis for Developing Learning Resource Materials |
Mark Nathaniel G. Pascual, LPT, MAEd
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Abstract:
The study was conducted to assess the grammar skills of the Grade 8 students, which will serve as the main basis in developing appropriate learning resource materials. The descriptive method, which employs objective and summative needs analysis, was used by the researcher for this purpose. Two sets of questionnaires were used in the study. The first questionnaire was the 75-item diagnostic test. The second was the test-questionnaire, which listed 25 identified vital grammar points. The participants in this study were divided into two groups: 86 selected Grade 8 students from Parada National High School (PNHS) in Parada, Santa Maria, Bulacan, during the 2018-2019 school year, and six English 8 teachers who answered the test-questionnaire. The data collected were encoded and entered into the matrix through the computer software of Microsoft Excel. The statistical procedures employed were frequency distribution, percentage score, mean, total mean, and standard deviation. The study recommends that English teachers in Grade 8 and other levels may use the results of the needs analysis in developing contextualized drills in English grammar. That way, the poor level of grammar skills of the students will be addressed. For their part, school administrators should initiate trainings, programs, seminars, and workshops about the development of contextualized instructional materials and using them in grammar instruction. And finally, curriculum developers will do well to emphasize the grammar points mentioned in this study because this is where students are weakest in. The results of this study may well serve as their basis in revisiting the present curricula.
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