Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education

Region IV-A CALABARZON

Division of Rizal

VALLEY HIGH ACADEMY

“The use of mobile dictionary traditional dictionary in the academic performance of ICT12-2

students for the SY:2019-2020”

RESEACHERS:

GIZELLE GOCON

LANIE MARQUEZ

JOHNSON LACADEN

STEPHEN MANUEL

CRISTOPHER GUEVARRA

JEROME SAN JOSE

JUSTINE RAMOS
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The researchers wish to express our sincere and profound gratitude for the person, in one way or other,

have contributed to the successful completion of the study:

Teacher of Practical Research Ms. Ma. Ada Santos for allowing us to utilize some of the information

about the students schedule and activities;

The students of Valley High Academy for cooperating and answering researchers survey questionnaires;

And above all, Heavenly Father, who gives his undying blessings strength determination and guidance to

the pursuit of the study.

DEDICATION

The researchers dedicate this research study to our Almighty God, who guide and never leave us

in making this research.

The researchers also want to dedicate this research to our beloved family and friends, to all the

respondents, to our teachers and to all the people who make this study possible. Most especially

to my group mates, this is the fruit of our work! God bless.

G.E.G

L.M

S.M

J.S

C.P.G

J.C.H

J.L.L

INTRODUCTION

Having and using dictionary helps the academic performances of every student. Some of the

students are using the mobile dictionary and some of them are using the traditional dictionary. One of the

most important goals of every student is to become an autonomous, self-sufficient learner, who can

continue learning and improving for their whole life. The advantage of using the mobile dictionary are the

words were updated and more dictionary users prefer mobile over printed for speed and convenience.

Accessing mobile dictionary is much faster than thumbing through the pages in the print edition. The

disadvantage is that these dictionary/mobile apps can use significant storage space on the device. With

apps and online services, it is important to find versions using the accepted local spelling. With many of

these services originating in United States of America there is definite bias towards American English.

The benefits of using a dictionary are enriching your vocabulary, improving your grammar because of the
fact that majority contents the main patterns of writing besides word order. Furthermore, many of them

contains the word transcriptions as well as their meanings. When you open a dictionary to any two-page

spread, you are usually looking up a word. It is usually the case, though, that your eye wanders. Words

are tantalizing, and a dictionary page holds so much information that it is easy to see something else

interesting on the page. Print dictionaries allow for serendipity.

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Vocabulary teaching and learning is a very challenging and demanding process while learning
any foreign
language. As such, learners try to find out which vocabulary learning method is more beneficial or even
the best
one. However, not surprisingly, their first approach is to try to memorize every word that they do not
know.
According to the studies, beginners prefer learning words separately, that is, using a list of words to
memorize,
whereas advanced students, although there are some exceptions, try to learn words in context (Ellis, 1994,
p.
553). Likewise, vocabulary teaching is generally restricted on presenting new items as they appear in any
activity without preparing the learners through activation of prior knowledge or helping them regularly
revise the
previously learned vocabulary items until they are thoroughly learnt. In order to overcome this restriction
and
provide learners and teachers with better opportunities and a variety of activities, computers and the
Internet
have been put into use in the foreign language instruction and the positive effect of computer-assisted
instruction on developing reading comprehension skills and vocabulary acquisition has been reported in
numerous studies. Computer-assisted vocabulary acquisition can have its different instantiations, ranging
from
Web-based reading tasks with glossing support, through dedicated vocabulary learning software to online
personal vocabulary learning systems like WordChamp. Due to the fact that computer-assisted vocabulary
instruction undertaken in the present study had a wide range of components, various approaches to
vocabulary
learning with computers need to be reviewed at this point.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The use of mobile dictionary traditional dictionary in the academic performance of ICT12-2
students for the SY:2019-2020

This study aims to determine the difference between mobile dictionary and traditional dictionary
in the academic performance of ict12-2 students in Valley High Academy SY:2019-2020 with the help of
finding answers in the following questions:

1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents in the terms of

1.1 Age

1.2 Sex

2. What kind of dictionary do you prefer?

2.1 Traditional

2.2 Mobile

3. What are the disadvantages of using traditional dictionary?

4. What are the advantages of using mobile dictionary?

5. What are the effects of using any platforms of dictionary in?

5.1 Academic performance

5.2 Communication

6. How dictionary improves your communication skills?

SCOPE AND LIMITATION

The Researchers allocated a questionnaire to the TVL-ICT 2 students but the researchers are not
allowed to conduct a survey outside the school campus. The treatment of data was delimited to the
interpretation of COMPARISON of using TRADITIONAL & MOBILE DICTIONARY of the
respondents along the items provided in a research made questionnaire on the previously topic.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study is deemed significant to Valley High Academy, Principal, teachers, parents, and

students along with the government and non-government organizations.

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION

Provides methods to improve the learning process of students. It will also help the students to
catch their attention and interest.

TEACHERS

The given data will be a guide for the teachers to know the students skills and capabilities. It will
also help them to enhance their methods of teaching. A new Education instruction will be a way to find
students interest through searching for better ways to educate students.

PARENTS

Through parental involvement it will be a setting and a way to improve their child interest. The
findings will also help them to have a positive impact on psychological, intellectual and social interaction
of their child. Parents also understand the new teaching

STUDENTS

The result will give a chance to get an interaction, new instructions and techniques of a new
method of learning. It will also a great benefit for an effectively exposed on the educational instructions.

FUTURE RESEARCHERS

This comparative study of using mobile and traditional dictionary in the academic performance of
the students will be a first path to tied an increased academic growth as the result of combined findings
and intellectual content.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

DICTIONARY

A book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language typically in alphabetical order and
gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing
information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.
REASERCHER

A researcher is someone who conducts research, i.e., an organized and systematic investigation
into something. Scientists are often described as researchers.

STUDENT

A student is primarily a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution who attends

classes in a course to attain the appropriate level of mastery of a subject under the guidance of an

instructor and who devotes time outside class to do whatever activities the instructor assigns that are

necessary either.

CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter represent the related literature and studies which all have a direct bearing on this study

It has provided a discussion on the significance of this study to the existing literature. The content of this

chapter were gathered from various sources such as the writings of experts, books and different thesis

projects. All of these have significant relation and contribution to the study. It discusses the subject of search

engine development and studies conducted to highlight the significance of the proposed system. The review

of related literature is done to find out the ways, needs and further wants of users. This section also
contained the theory that serves as the proponent's guide toward the possible completion of this study.

Important points were quoted to support the proponents’ ideas and to contribute to the study.

LOCAL LITERATURE

James Watson, Anne Hill

Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2015

The Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies has provided students and the general
public alike with a gateway into the study of intercultural communication, public relations and marketing
communications since 1984. In this 9th edition, James Watson and Anne Hill provide a detailed
compendium of the different facets of personal, group, mass-media and internet communication that
continues to be a vital source of information for all those interested in how communication affects our
lives. They cover new applications and developments, such as the incorporation of Neuroscience
techniques in advertising and marketing. Other updates include Cyber-bullying, Twitter scandals, conduct
in media organizations, on-line lobbying, global protesting/petitioning, and gender issues relating to
social media in general. While new entries explore the profound shifts that have taken place in the world
of communication in recent years, the purpose of this new edition is not necessarily to keep abreast of
every new media event but to reflect the trends that influence and prompt such events, such as the
Leveson Inquiry and Report and phone hacking via mobile phones. Politics seems to be playing out more
on Twitter than in The Times. This volume seeks to make its twenty-first century readers more media
literate, as well as more critical consumers of modern news.

LOCAL STUDY

This chapter considers a range of issues related to the study of Philippine English vocabulary,

including the importance of dictionaries in the legitimation of world Englishes, the description of lexical

innovations, and the historical development and codification of the Philippine English lexicon. Historical

sources show that Filipino words began to be borrowed into the English of the American colonizers at a

very early stage in the colonial period. Today, the English used in the Philippines has a distinctive

localized vocabulary which finds expression in a range of settings, including government, education, and

the media as well as the personal domain. As yet, however, no comprehensive dictionary of Philippine

English has been compiled, and those dictionaries with most authority remain the various editions of

Merriam- Webster's, whose inclusion of a Philippine lexicon is largely limited to a colonial inventory of

the tribes and products of the Philippine Islands dating from the early twentieth century. Despite the
mechanisms of language contact and lexical innovation that characterize the creative, hybrid, and

innovative cadences of contemporary Philippine English, major reference dictionaries, particularly the

Merriam-Webster, have institutionalized a petrified lexicon of Philippine vocabulary derived from an era

of American anthropology concerned with the study and classification of the native population. Recent

attempts to promote dictionaries with a more authentic coverage of contemporary Philippine English

vocabulary have been well-received, but have failed to gain a wide following. This failure may in part be

explained by the broader history of the lexicography of Philippine languages, which dates from the

sixteenth century, as well as a consideration of the sociolinguistic realities of the present.

FOREIGN LITERATURE

This tendency has been noted by many authors alongside other issues to do with dictionary
users' lack of reference skills (e.g. Atkins & Varantola, 1997;Béjoint, 2000;Tono, 2001). Since the
ODNZSL was in many cases the only electronic dictionary that participants in the current study were
familiar with, and given that sign language dictionaries display and organise information in their entries
differently than dictionaries of spoken languages, it would be expected that users would initially find it
difficult to navigate the search results.

FOREIGN STUDY

In recent years, rapid developments in technology has placed books and notebooks into the

mobile phones and tablets and also the dictionaries into these small boxes. Giant dictionaries, which we

once barely managed to carry, have been replaced by mobile dictionaries through which we can reach any

words we want with only few touches. Mobile dictionaries with their audiovisual contents, has became an

important source for vocabulary teaching. Further required studies are needed to use this source in a more

efficient way and benefit from it more effectively. Starting from this point, this study elaborates on the

use of mobile dictionaries in vocabulary teaching. In the first place, advantages and the limits of the use

of these dictionaries in vocabulary teaching are tried to be determined by looking at the approaches of

students to them and how frequent they are used. In light of the emerging data, new ways are sought to
use these dictionaries as more efficient teaching material. To this end, a survey was conducted to seventy-

eight students studying in German, French and English Translation and Interpreting Departments of

Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Marmara University in 2015-2016 academic year. Survey form was

prepared by receiving opinion of an expert and reviewing related literature. Descriptive statistic

techniques were used in the analysis of data gathered. At the end of the study, almost all students

expressed that they were constantly using mobile dictionaries to learn vocabulary. Besides, students put

forth the advantages and limits of them. We hope this study will make contribution to studies regarding

more efficient way to use of these dictionaries in vocabulary teaching.

LOCAL STUDY -
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e_English_vocabulary?fbclid=IwAR016Z6yZ0gY6nJPaOa4sK4NIZJ1sAMvyvmJiaPoUU0-uXfIjYVO6gRtFqw

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

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