Subverbag: A Module to Enrich the Communicative Competence of Grade 7 Learners

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

K to 12 program has brought revamps, enrichments and modifications in the curriculum of education. Transfer of knowledge likewise comes in varied forms while interventions are done to ensure that the learners learn the best way possible.

METHODS

Descriptive-developmental research approach was used in this study. Frequency count, mean and percentage technique were utilized to interpret and analyze the data gathered. With the result of the teacher-made test, it was found that a total of 76 grade seven learners were involved in this study. In conducting interview with teachers who are also teaching the subject, the rules on subject and verb agreement which the learners have found difficulty in using were emphasized in the innovation developed.

RESULTS

The status of grade 7 learners in subject-verb agreement did not meet the required level nor attain the expected degree of learning. Based pre-test results, a total of 1287 was the score computed which arrived at a mean of 17.03 and an MPL of 34.06. After knowing the status of the participants, an instructional material named SubVerbAg: A Module to Enhance the Communicative Competence of Grade 7 Learners was designed and utilized by the participants. Then, a post-test was conducted and arrived at a total mean of 35.76 with a MPL of 71.53.

DISCUSSIONS

It can be inferred from the results that there was a great increase in the performance level of the respondents after using the intervention. From the MPL attained during the pre-test, which was 37.47, and the MPL after its usage, which was 71.53, an increase of 37.47 was computed. Evidently, the exposure of the learners in the instructional material helped in attaining the goals of the lesson.

Findings indicate that recording the scores of the students is not simply a matter of computing their performance outputs. It is more on knowing what interventions to design for them to attain the desired learning goals. In defining their weaknesses, greater avenues to discover their skills and aptitudes are offered.

Teaching therefore, requires going beyond what an ordinary teacher can do, impart, and contribute to enrich the content of the curriculum. In being open to new perspectives of teaching, introduction of varied innovations, interventions and strategies accompanied to it are disclosed.