The Effectiveness of Project E-Best Phase in Improving Language Proficiency and Content Knowledge and among Teachers of Kinder to Grade III in Magallanes District SY 2017-2018

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

It is in line with the need to enhance the English proficiency of the teachers of kinder to Grade III of Magallanes District that the researchers decided to study the effectiveness of E-Best Training in improving the Language proficiency and content knowledge of teachers.

The notion-major teachers of English are having trouble teaching the subject because of not enough exposure and training to the said subject. Many teachers expressed that although they would like to enhance their English level, they could not find an effective way to do so. The limited training and exposure to the language make it difficult for them to master the content knowledge This project involved training and workshop in improving language proficiency and content knowledge among teachers of kinder to grade III in Magallanes District. The goal was to know the effectiveness of project e-best.

METHODS

The researchers used the One-shot -pretest-posttest pre-experimental design to determine the effectiveness of project E-Best in improving the language proficiency of teachers who participated in this training. The researcher used the t-test correlated data to measure and determine the result of the pretest and posttest.

RESULTS

All the kinder to Grade III teachers of Magallanes District were the participants of the E -Best training. There were 43 teacher participants and all of them were the respondents of the study. On the last day of the training, posttest using the same set of tests in the pretest was given again to the participants. Scores of participants in the Pretest and Posttest were compared to find out if there was an improvement of the score. Based on the result of the pretest and posttest, it was found out that the project e-best was effective. The result of this study could be a basis whether the said project would have to be continued to the next level by having phase II of project E-best.

DISCUSSIONS

This study highlighted the effectiveness of project e-best, the result showed that teachers need such kind of pieces of training and workshop to improve their language proficiency and content knowledge. This action research used the performance checklist, Pretest-Posttest to find out the performance progress on English language proficiency and content knowledge of kinder to Grade III teachers.