Impacts of Playing Music in Students' Reading Comprehension

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Impacts of playing music on reading comprehension of grade 11 student of Naic National High School-Satellite was conducted to (1) determine the reading comprehension of student when grouped according to section on the following experimental set-ups; no background music, with sound of nature background music and with classical background music and (2) determine if there is a significance differences in the reading comprehension level of students on the three set-ups. The study took place at the selected sections within the vicinity of Naic National High School-Satellite from September to October 2018.This study is significant to the teachers and students. The findings of this research help the teachers to gain new strategy in conducting a reading test. The findings also help the student to choose the kind of music should play while reading. It could be useful also to review notes before examination.

METHODS

Three treatments with different background music were used in the study. Treatment A: no music, Treatment B: with sound of nature background music, and Treatment C: with classical background music. The study used experimental method using cross-over group design to determine the impacts of playing music on student reading comprehension. The reading comprehension assessment was used to determine the impacts of music on students reading comprehension using the three set-ups which is no music, with sound of nature, and classical music

The impacts of playing music in student's reading comprehension Grade 11 students of Naic National High School -Satellite as presented in table 1.

RESULTS

The mean ratings for Set up 1 was 5.14, Set up 2 was 5.38, and Set up 3 was 6.10 which means that when the students read without music and read with sound of nature background music, their reading comprehension level is average, then when the students read with classical background music their reading comprehension level is good.

DISCUSSIONS

Remarks based on the conduct study showed that when the participants read while listening to classical music, they tend to have good rating in their reading comprehension level and the participants score increases.