Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region IV – A (CALABARZON)
City Schools Division of Cabuyao
PULO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
City of Cabuyao

ACTION RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Action Research Proposal of VIRNALISA F. MARANAN

Designation Teacher III
For School Year 2018-2019

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROJECT MP3 (MUSIC PLAYING 3X A WEEK)

TO THE WORD RECOGNITION SKILL OF PUPILS OF GRADE
FIVE - MATULUNGIN OF PULO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR 2018-2019
I. Context and Rationale

A Filipino child needs to develop higher order thinking skills and

functional literacy. It is given that any Filipino child with sufficient reading skills

would have greater chances of success in school compared to a child whose

reading skills are poor. Poor reading skill is manifested with poor

comprehension, wrong pronunciations, among others. If no proper

intervention is administered early, it could affect the academic, social and

psychological development of the child.

Ability to recognize words is a basic skill that is essential to attain

reading comprehension. However, the researcher noticed during the conduct

of Phil-IRI GST, many of her pupils lack the said ability especially in English

words. To remediate the said problem, she would like to try to use English

songs since she noticed that they seem to be very interested with songs,

especially the ones that are recently played in the airwaves. In this situation,

she was able to think of a project that may help increase the word recognition

ability of her pupils using their interest in songs.

II. Action Research Questions

The action research aims to answer the following questions:

1. What is the level of word recognition skill of the target pupils before, during

and after the conduct of the proposed remediation project?

2. What is the level of effectiveness of the project MP3 with the word

recognition skill of the target pupils?

III. Proposed Innovation, Intervention, and Strategy

The researcher proposes the following to be possible innovative

solution to help solve the problem:

Music Playing 3x a Week (MP3)

In order to increase the interest of pupils in reading and recognizing

words, the project will be utilizing song genres that they enjoy listening to. An

English song will be selected to be used for a week and words/lyrics of the

song will be pre-chosen by the teacher to be used as word or words of the

week.

The song will be played twice during the remediation class and a copy

of the lyrics will be shown to the pupils. They are allowed to sing along to gain

their attention and interest. The chosen word will then be given emphasis by

having its proper pronunciation, meaning and correct usage in a sentence.

This will be done 3x a week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays)

IV. Action Research Methods

a. Participants

The participants are the 19 male and 21 female pupils of Grade Five –

Matulungin during the School Year 2018-2019

b. Data Gathering Methods

A teacher-made test will be given as an oral pre-test and post-test to the

pupils before and after the remediation program.

c. Data Analysis Plan

 The difference between the pre-test score and post-test score of the

participants will be statistically treated to determine the level of

effectiveness of the remediation program to be conducted.

V. Action Research Work Plan and Timelines

Target Persons Action to be Time Expected

Involved Taken Result
Subject Frame

40 pupils Class Adviser  Administer July 2018  Determine

of Grade (Mrs. oral pre-test of 20 the level of word
Five – Virnalisa F. words recognition
Matulungin Maranan) ability of target
(S.Y. 2018- pupils
2019)

 Playing of July –  Steady

songs and September improvement/
distribution of lyrics 2018 development of
sheets. word recognition
 Emphasizing ability of target
select average to pupils
difficult words in
the lyrics to
encourage mastery
of word recognition.

School  Conduct of October Determine the

English Post-Test to 2018 level of
Coordinator determine the level effectiveness of
(Ms. of improvement of the project
Dearborn E. the word
Villafranca) recognition ability
of targeted pupils
VI. Cost Estimates

Materials Cost Source of Fund

Teacher-made test and P 100.00 Personal

score sheet for pupils

LED TV for P 5,000.00 Personal

presentation of the

lyrics

Speakers for playing P 3,500.00 Personal

of songs

VII. Plans for Dissemination and Utilization

Upon determining the level of effectiveness of the proposed

remediation project, in the instance that there is a high level of effectiveness,

the researcher intends to submit the program to the school English

coordinator for possible adaptation in the school level. However, in the

instance that there is a low level of effectiveness, the researcher is open for

collaboration in ways to improve the said proposed remediation project in

order to address the concern in her pupils.

VIII. References

Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension as a Measure of Reading Skills of

Filipino Children by: Ryan Francis O. Cayubit; University of Santo Tomas,
Manila, Philippines

http://www.edutopia.org/discussion/reading-profile-children-philippines

"Moving from the Old to the New: Research on Reading Comprehension

Instruction", Review of Educational Research, 1991