Research Writing Performance of Grade 11 Automotive Students of Lemery Senior High School: Basis For intervention Activities

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Research writing is an essential activity that can help enrich one's knowledge, skills, and competence towards broad understanding of new discoveries and learning that would lead a great benefit to the society. In addition, it is a potent weapon to give solution to existing problems in a very systematic way. In this connection, the skills in research writing utilizing Filipino language can enhance the capability of students of Lemery Senior High School in the fields of communication, innovation, and discovery. For the students to have proper guidance, the researcher has utilized various strategies in teaching research writing in her classes. Despite the researcher's rigorous effort, still, students experience difficulties to come up with a good research paper using Filipino language. Needless to say, it is imperative to determine the problems that students are encountering in research writing using our national language to conceptualize and implement appropriate intervention activities to address students’ needs.

METHODS

The descriptive qualitative method of research was employed in this study. Structured interview, observation, and experience of teacher were used as research instruments. Fourteen Grade 11-Automotive 2 students were randomly selected and served as informants or participants of the study. The interview guide questions were prepared by the researcher and got validated by a Master Teacher before it was utilized to gather information.

RESULTS

The study revealed that some of the students got low performance in research writing using Filipino language. This is attributed to the problems they met in the research writing process. These include unfamiliarity with the different parts of research, limited time in the conduct of research, lack of technical knowledge, lack of Filipino language-based researches as references, poor skills in sentence construction and organization of thoughts, lack of financial resources, and lack of motivation. Furthermore, it was disclosed that intervention activities should be done to address the needs of the students. Among these activities are remedial classes, online instruction, peer tutoring, and establishment of library with Filipino research references.

DISCUSSIONS

Despite the efforts of teachers in their instruction of research writing using Filipino language, students still experience difficulties that hinder them in accomplishing different competencies in research. With this, proper diagnosis of the different problems encountered by the students in research writing should be done to address their needs so that appropriate intervention may be conceptualized and implemented.