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Grammar Competence Level of NDMU-
IBED SHS Learners: Basis for an Intervention Program

NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME

Green Valley College Foundation Inc. Integrated Basic Education

Ariane Claire M. Terneza

EAPP Teacher
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INTRODUCTION of the
convenience the technology has brought. To
Background of the Study engage in global commerce, both the ability to
use technology skillfully and to produce
As the world becomes united to
English language competently—speaking and
become a global community with the aid of
writing—are of essential most especially in
modern technology, the English language
education and business industries. Apparently,
plays a vital role to bridge communication
learning and studying English in the modern
across countries. Currently, some countries
world have become a necessity for practical
are able to use the language fluently because
importance; for instance, the use of English of the
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language as a medium of communication English
internationally and as a skill for employment language remain intact in any curriculum.
market opportunities (Estabislao, 2013). This is evident by offering it as a subject in
both Junior and Senior High School
In the Philippines, though the curriculum. Also, English language has been
educational system has changed drastically the medium of instruction in teaching subjects
despite certain alterations in the curriculum such as Science, Mathematics, and among
such as the implementation of K12 and the others. Because of the high importance that
transition from face-to-face learning to online Philippines has given in learning and studying
or blended learning, the learning and studying
English, Philippines has been regarded as one other
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of the largest English-speaking nations, Asian
considering the majority who is able to countries in terms of using the English
produce and communicate using target language. Karl Wilson (2008) showed that
language (Cabigon, 2015). Filipinos scored ‘poor’ in terms of achieving
the macro skills of English—listening,
While some Filipinos are highly reading, writing, and speaking, implying that
competent in the use of the English language, Filipinos are far beyond the international
most have difficulty in achieving its fluency. standards. Also, Philippines remained
Studies found out that Filipinos have become consistent from 1993 to 2000 in English
stagnant or slower to progress compared to
proficiency before it actually declines in in
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succeeding years. This backdrop has become grammar
disturbingly alarming because of the aspect allows one to interact using the target
increasing percentage of the incompetent language. If one is able to do so, the person
English users from 7% in 1993 to 14% in then has an ability to produce clear messages
2006 (UK Essays, 2013). and thus be able to be understood by others.
In the same way, having competence in
One of the major concerns of the grammar can produce good quality writings
learners in learning and studying English (Bradshaw, 2013).
language is grammar which regarded as one
of the fundamentals of language. Competence The English grammar is primarily
founded in its parts of speech namely: noun, students
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pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, is their
conjunction, interjection, and verb. Learners sentence formation or ‘syntax’ which has a
are expected to master these grammatical direct implication in semantics and
elements as prerequisites before proceeding to pragmatics. This implies that learners seem
complex grammatical forms; however, as unaware and thus undermine the significance
researchers who have been teaching English of the grammar rules just so to convey the
subjects and handling writing-related message (Tafrida & Okunade, 2016).
activities, one of the identified existing Learners, therefore, have difficulty achieving
problems among the NDMU-IBED SHS one of the language learning competencies in
the K12 program—the grammar proficiency.
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Based on the stated arguments, the This study aims to identify the
study was conceptualized in order to address grammatical competence of Senior High
the existing gaps in literatures; thus, the School learners. Specifically, it intends to
researchers came up with this proposal to determine the (1) levels of grammatical
address the need of the Filipino learners. competence of SHS learners in terms of
articles, prepositions, word usage, pronouns,
tenses of verbs, conjunctions; and voices in
Statement of the Problem the pre and post-tests; (2) the interventions
that must be done to improve the respondents’
levels of grammatical competence; and (3) the
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significant difference between pre and post
grammatical competence tests. participatory, collaborative, and cyclical ways
in order to produce both knowledge and
METHODOLOGY action. The design will be used because of its
tailor-fits to the current need of the learners.
Research Design 
The process of action-research investigates on
The study will utilize a quantitative- the current problems experienced by a group
action research design. As O’Leary (2007) put then there will be actions to address the
it, it is a tackled real-world problem in problems. Since the study requires the need to
identify the current problems of learners, the
researchers used this design to design a course High
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of action to address the problem. School
program. The locale will be selected based on
Locale of the Study the rich number of possible respondents of the
study, and the accessibility of the researchers
The study will be conducted at Notre
to gather data from them.
Dame of Marbel University- Integrated Basic
Education Department Senior High School. It
is located in the City of Koronadal, South
Cotabato. The said locale is one of the few Respondents of the Study
private schools in the city which offers Senior
 The respondents of the study will be editing
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five hundred thirty-eight (538) senior high which
school learners of NDMU-IBED SHS who specifically requires grammatical skills.
will be officially enrolled in the SY 2022-
2023. They were selected by the researches to Sampling Technique
be the respondents because they will be taking
The respondents will be mainly
the English 3 or the Reading and Writing
selected through a purposive sampling which
course, which is a Core Curriculum Course,
is a non-probability sampling technique in
offered in the second semester, where one of
which the researchers carefully choose the
its competencies is the technical writing and
respondents with the assumption that they will
be able to provide specific and rich data that
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will be significant in achieving the purpose of
the study. According to Cresswell (2012), This study will adopt the research
purposive sampling refers selecting questionnaires on grammatical competence
individuals and sites intentionally using a set from the studies Yang (2020) and Chung
of criteria to learn and understand the (2014). The single-part grammatical
essential phenomenon. In this study, each competence questionnaire will be divided into
respondent will be identified as a single, seven sub-sections namely: Articles,
discrete entity or static. Preposition, Word Usage, Pronoun, Tense of
Verb, Conjunction, and Voices. All of the
Research Instrument  sub-sections will be given with five (5)
questions each with a total of 35 questions. approval
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The research questionnaire will be subjected of the
to content and face validation before the request to conduct the study, a letter of
gathering of data. invitation, an informed consent form, and the
questionnaire will be distributed to the
Data Gathering Procedure respondents. The goal and their participation
in the research will also be explained to them.
The researchers will initially write a
permission letter explaining the purpose and
nature of the study to the school
administration. Subsequently, with the Data Analysis
 To conduct an objective analysis of A
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the gathered data, the researchers will utilize scale
descriptive statistics such as means to shown in Table 1 was used to describe and
determine the level of grammatical interpret the results of the SHS learners’ level
competence of the learners in both pre and of grammatical competence.
post grammatical competence tests. To
analyze if there is a significant difference Table 1
between the pre and post grammatical
Rating Scale for the Grammatical
competence tests, the independent sample T-
Competence
test will be used.
 Descriptio Interpreta
Range 32-35
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n tion
Exemplary Very High

28-31 Accomplis High

hed
Developin
25-27 Moderate
g
21-24 Beginning Low
Unaccepta
0-20 Very Low
ble
Note.  Taherdoost (2020)  Ilagay
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ang result
mula sa questionaire gamit ang graphic
organizer (pie chart). Sa ilalim ng chart ay
ang questionaire.
CONCLUSION
Ilagay dito ang conclusion
Results & Discussion
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APPENDICES

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