Strengthening the Vocabulary Skills of Grade Two Pupils of the Pagalangan Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Vocabulary mastery would be very helpful for the students in learning English, especially in reading skills. Reading is one of the most important skills to master by students as foreign language learners. Most of the current information has been found through electronic or printed media, such as internet, books, journals, articles, newspapers and etc. It means the pupils should read from many kinds of sources to get more information in every field of study. To comprehend the content of the text or passage they should have good vocabulary mastery. That's why reading comprehension skill and vocabulary mastery is often connected to one another.

Based on our Phil IRI, the Grade II pupils were determined the highest number of frustration level and they could not even recognize the letters of the alphabet.

METHODS

Statistical treatment of data will be necessary in order to make use of the data in the right form. After the collection of raw data, the information was organized for analysis and interpretation for an appropriate conclusion.

The data will be obtained from the questionnaire and interviews were collected, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by the researcher. The following statistical tools were used in the analysis and interpretation of responses.After the questionnaire is collected, the data will be tallied and tabulated. The items of the level of development of Grade II Pupils are scored based on the rating scale. Each scale has a corresponding value such as better (3), good (2), and poor (1).

RESULTS

The researcher included the personal profile inventory to determine the level of the vocabulary skills of grade two pupils in Pagalangan Elementary School, S.Y. 2016 -2017. BANTAY-BASA GROUP was implemented, it provides assistance to pupils by doing peer teaching. After these implementations, the researchers found out that the level of the vocabulary skills of grade two pupils from poor to better.

DISCUSSIONS

The results revealed that the use of different reading activities during remedial reading classes strengthened the vocabulary skills of the grade two pupils. Pupils are now interested in doing context clues, spelling pattern, flashcards of wordswith pictures, reading phrases, simple sentences, and short stories. The implementation of these activities have successfully improved the vocabulary skills of the grade two pupils.