Multisensory Strategies: Effective Vocabulary Enhancement to Grade Four Learners of Anangi Elementary School, Lipa City Division

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study was intended to enhance the vocabulary skills of Grade 4 learners in Anangi Elementary Schools using multisensory strategies in teaching English vocabulary. They were categorized into visual and movement strategies. Moreover, the participants of this study were the Grade four learners from Anangi Elementary School in East District of Lipa City Division. The total population of the Grade four learners were used as participants, hence, there was a total of 38 learners who participated in the study. The survey questionnaire was the main source of data to be analyzed. The researcher assumed that all the respondents answered the questionnaire honestly and at the same time it was also assumed that their English teacher used all the multisensory strategies mentioned in this study.

METHODS

Descriptive -quantitative research method through the survey technique was the chosen research design utilized in the study because of its appropriateness to the nature of the problem. This study included a total of 38 Grade 4 learners who participated in the study. There was no sampling method used since the total population of the respondents participated in the study. The questionnaire was the main data gathering tool used in this study. The items were on the profile of the respondents and the multisensory strategies used by English teachers in developing the vocabulary of the learners. The data analysis technique used were frequency, percentage, and weighted mean computation.

RESULTS

Majority of the respondents were eight years old. It is evident with the percentage of 36.4 that the age group had obtained, the majority were female comprising the 77.3 percent of the total respondents. It was found that the visual, movement and sound strategies in teaching vocabulary were sometimes used by the teacher. They also agreed that the use of the said strategies helped improve their vocabulary skills. There was also a significant relationship between the assessments of the respondents on vocabulary development with the use of the multisensory strategies when grouped according to profile variables.

DISCUSSIONS

This study implied that the use of multisensory strategies such as visual, movement, and sound strategies were able to improve the vocabulary development of the learners.