Thumblers Suite: A Proposed Language Enhancement Game Collection for Senior High School English Classes

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Majority of the students in Amontay NHS in the Senior High School Department can hardly speak nor write English sentences. It centered on creating games that would develop enjoyment of the parts of speech, word connections, phrases and clauses mastery, sentence building, and sentence rephrasing, figuring out its acceptability level.

METHODS

Grounded in instructional material development theories, this research employed the Design and Development Research employing the triangulation method, purposive sampling with 58 students and 6 evaluators, and the ADDIE model of instructional material development.

RESULTS

The findings revealed that the proposed language enhancement game collection (Thumblers Suite) for English language Communication of Grade 11 students consisted of uno game like for enjoyment of the parts of speech, word factory-like for word connections, snake and ladders-lie for phrases and clauses mastery, scrabble-like game for sentence building, and shufflers which are made part of the thumblers suite. Its contents, technicality, and aesthetic qualities gained highly acceptable marks with 4.57, 4.48, and 4.77 mean rating respectively. Its overall rating garnered a mean score of 4. 61 interpreted as excellent which posits that the game collection can be utilized in many context of language development.

DISCUSSIONS

The game collection may further be improved and modified including tense and aspect properties for group and individual language development. Furthermore, subjecting the developed games individually from the suite with other set of study participants and taking qualitative evaluation will be of a great help in attaining the study's full essence.