Iparisnak and Recognizing Ilokano Words in Mother tongue of Grade I Pupils of Rizal Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of "Iparisnak" in improving the word recognition skills of Grade 1 pupils of Rizal Elementary School during the school year 2015-2016. Specifically, it was directed to determine the level of recognizing words in Mother Tongue. The main focus was in the improvement of the recognizing word skill of pupils through "Iparisnak”.

METHODS

The descriptive-comparative research design was used in this action research using pre-test and post-test wherein statistical tools used in the analysis of data were Mean and standard deviation, Paired Samples t-Test and Eta-squared. Mean and standard deviation were used in describing the pre-test and post-test scores of students while Paired Samples t-Test was utilized to determine the significant difference in the scores of respondents before and after the implementation of Iparisnak. Results were recorded, tabulated, and analyzed. Also, Eta-squared was computed to measure the effect of Iparisnak on the reading skills of the respondents.

RESULTS

The respondents showed slow performance with the given task given before "Iparisnak" was given and showed improvement in their reading level after "Iparisnak" was introduced. It revealed that skill in recognizing Ilokano words in Mother Tongue of the respondents significantly improved through the use of "Iparisnak”. In improving then the skill on word recognition in Mother Tongue and in other learning areas, "Iparisnak" is highly recommended to be used and tried in another grade level which can also improve the academic performance of the pupils.

DISCUSSIONS

The results tell that reading interventions are essential in improving the word recognition skill of pupils like "Iparisnak" were really effective. Thus, it leads to the idea that more teacher-made reading interventions should be made to help 21st-century learners. The teachers' ability to creativeness and resourcefulness were required. And since "Iparisnak" is effective to grade 1 class, it may be enhanced and modified so that it maybe applicable to other higher-grade levels at all learning areas. "Iparisnak" may be tested too to large numbers of pupils.