Short Paragraph and Essay: Am I able to write you?

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The Filipino subject in the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum is composed of five macro skills such as: listening, reading, speaking, viewing, and writing. Moreover, each skill is the content of the lesson each day from Monday to Friday (i.e. Monday-Listening; Tuesday-Reading, Wednesday-speaking, Thursday-viewing, and Friday-writing). After a series of simple assessment in writing, in Grade six pupils It was found outthat the latter has a limited writing skills that should be addressed. Therefore, this research focused on the assessment of writing proficiency level of the Grade six pupils as a basis for intervention and remedial program in the classroom.

METHODS

This paper used mixed method. It is a methodology for conducting research that involves collecting, analyzing, and integrating quantitative (e.g. experiments, surveys) and qualitative (e.g. focus groups, interviews) research. There are no questionnaires used in data gathering, instead the respondents are given a topic where the latter writes a short paragraphs about the topic. The scoring rubrics was used to give numerical rating in the output of the respondents, rated by the Filipino teachers in the school. The procedure was done twice, the pre-test (assessment) and post-test (after the intervention). Numerical rating of two test were computed, compared and analyzed through statistics

RESULTS

This research is composed of forty-six (46) grade six pupils, as respondents. The pre-test revealed that six or thirteen (13) percent are in medium level of proficiency, while forty (40) respondents included in the low level of proficiency. On the other hand, the post-test shown the big increase in the figures; thirty eight (38) or 83% of the respondents are in the high level of proficiency, while eight or 17% are in the medium level of proficiency. The increase in the results is the evidence of the intervention activities done by the subject teacher-researcher, such as giving more topics to think and write on. Therefore the null hypothesis stating that there is no significant difference of the two results were rejected.

DISCUSSIONS

The results show the assessment results of the writing skills level of proficiency of the selected Grade 6 pupils (SY 2018-2019) of Kaytitinga Elementary School. The writing skills can be developed among the pupils through intervention activities like giving more topics to think and write.