The Effectiveness ofReading Classroom Explorer to Improve the Word Recognition of Grade One Pupils in David P. Jimenez Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The Reading Classroom Explorer is a hypermedia learning environment for teacher education, was developed in 1996. The environment contains searchable video clips of exemplary teachers teaching reading, transcripts of classroom clips, questions to spur thinking, reference citations, and an interactive notebook. Thus, this study aims to investigate the effectiveness of reading classroom to improve the word recognition of grade one pupils in David P. Jimenez Elementary School.

METHODS

This study used pre-Experimental utilizing the one group, pretest, post-test design. The chosen participants were 20 grade one pupil who was identified with difficulties in recognizing words and were chosen using a non-random or purposive sampling technique. The group was assigned as the treatment group. The results of the standardized test of the group were compared using the Paired T-test and were checked for any significant difference.

RESULTS

Results revealed that there is a significant difference in the performance of grade one pupils after the Reading Classroom Explorer was used as an intervention program for the word recognition problem of the said pupils. Also, it shows that the said intervention program highly affected and improved the word recognition problem of the said pupils.

DISCUSSIONS

Word recognition, as we all know is a demanded skill that should be mastered by the pupils. With this, pupils can gain much information. In fact, the word recognition of many pupils nowadays is still low, worrying, unsatisfactory, and far from the expectation. Pupils are reluctant to read since words are unrecognized and difficult to understand. This condition leads the researcher to apply the Reading Classroom Explorer.