Development, Validation and Effectiveness of Grammar Workbook for College Freshmen: An Input to English Enhancement Program

Abstract

This study generally sought to determine the students’ performance in English grammar, using the validation of the developed workbook as an enhancement program in English, among freshmen students of Laguna State Polytechnic University, Los Baños Campus. It specifically answered questions on the validity of the English grammar workbook in terms of content, language and style, organization and presentation, and usefulness as evaluated by subject specialist. The demographic profile identified was that of student-respondents as to age, gender, parents’ educational attainment, language spoken at home. Common grammatical errors in agreement of pronoun and its antecedent, agreement of subject and verb, use of adjectives and adverbs and correct grammar usage; its mean level of performance of the respondents; the significant relationship between the students’ profile and their mean in performance in English Grammar encountered by the College Freshmen in English for the validity of the enhancement program. There were more students who fell under the age bracket of 17 and below, which showed that most of the respondents are younger; there was a larger percentage of female respondents compared to male; the majority of the parents’ educational attainment on both sides are high school graduates; there were more respondents whose family communicated in the Filipino language at home rather than the combining of Filipino and English. The hypothesis stating that the mean scores of college freshmen in English grammar did not relate to the students’ performance in English, and was rejected. There was a significant relationship between the students’ mean scores in English grammar, and the students’ performance in English.