The Task-: Based Teaching of Writing to Senior High School Classes

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Task-: based teaching is a new approach in education practice focusing chiefly on the performance of task (Mao, 2012). The task has to focus on learning a piece of classroom work which involves learners in comprehending, manipulating, producing, or interacting in the target language (Nunan, 1989). This study intends to determine the effectiveness of the task-: based instruction of writing skills to Senior High School(SHS) classes in Region IV-: A (CALABARZON) -: Philippines.

METHODS

This quantitative study is carried out based on utilizing single group pre-: test post-: test design through self-: constructed and adapted survey questionnaires which include multiple choice and rating. To achieve the purpose of the study, a total of 16 respondents from 87 Grade 12 SHS learners were randomly selected using Slovin's formula with 0.05 confidence level.

RESULTS

The data based on the study showed that there was an improvement between the student-: respondents' scores of Pre-: test and Post-: test after the administration of task-: based approach in teaching of writing with the Gain Score of 78. The gathered data showed that the mean in the Post-: test was relatively higher than the mean in the Pre-: test with the difference of 4.87. The data revealed that there was a significant difference on the score of Pre-: test and Post-: test which meant that the learners performed better during the post-: test after the Task-: based Instruction rather than there was no TBI at all. The results of the presented that the students had the extensive concept of the role of writing in English language teaching-: learning process and most students, as to English language writing, used words and sentence patterns to express their insights.

DISCUSSIONS

The study results showcase SHS learners' appreciation of the task-: based instruction in teaching of English language writing with the improvement level on the administered essay test after the completion of eight sessions. Recently, researches and studies had been conducted studying the best pedagogy in teaching writing. Thus, Filipino teacher should use task-: based instruction in teaching of writing to SHS classes to prove its positive achievement.