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THE PROBLEM
of and ignored because it is the most communal language being spoken in every part
of the world. English keeps on playing a vital role in different aspects of life such as
medicine, engineering, politics, businesses and academics purposes with the help of
adults (76%) say they understand spoken English; 75% say they read English; three out
of five (61 \%) say they're comfortable writing in English; close to half (46%) say they
speak English; about two-fifths (38%) say they think in English; while 8% say that they
are not competent in any way when it comes to the English language. Honestly
speaking, most of the students in every schools are struggling in speaking in English
language and even studying English. On the other hand, there are also lot of students
who love English. Grammars, spellings, understanding poems and stories, speaking in
English – these are some cases where students are experts of. There are lots of
advantages of knowing how to speak in English specially to the hope of our country –
the students. It helps students find high-quality jobs specifically in foreign countries
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and big companies. It enables students to communicate with the international world
some websites in the internet uses English language. Lastly, it facilitates accessing
researches which are related with their field during the academic years. In these
school works, students who can understand English won’t have difficulties in finding
The researchers will conduct this study to know if their class is into English
understanding and writing, and to analyze the efficiency of English for academic
purposes. This study will help not only the students of AM10 but also the other
subject and using English language for communication. Also, to prevent people
particularly students from incorrect spelling, wrong grammars, writing and to widen
English is widely spoken all over the world. English, for its widespread use and
acceptance, plays the role of the common language well. This study will be very
important to the students because English is important for higher education and
specialized training. Most of the books on any subjects are written in English or quickly
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Students. The students will study without being hindered by language problems,
English skills for their current and future studies and researches.
English Teachers. The research findings will act as their guide to know what area they
researchers will have all students of AM10 class as their respondents. The material
needed for this study is a survey or questionnaires which will be answered by the
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Definition of Terms
English – the chief language of Great Britain, US and many areas now or formerly
Proficiency – the quality of having great facility and competence or the state of being
cognitively skillful.
institution. In this study, the students will be the respondents to test their proficiency
in English.
Spelling – it is the forming of words with letters in an accepted and correct order.
Writing systems use sets of symbols to represent the sounds of speech, and may also
have symbols for such things as punctuation and numerals. Writing also tests the
grammar of a text.
Reading – It is the action or skill of reading written or printed matter silently or aloud.
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Review of Related Literature
Related Studies
according to Cook, language is at the center of human life. It is one of the most
important ways of expressing love or hatred for people; it is vital in achieving many of
man’s goals and career; it is the source of artistic satisfaction or simple pleasure.
Furthermore, Cook emphasized that language is used for planning one’s lives and
remembering one’s past; people exchange ideas and experiences through language,
they likewise identify themselves with people who speak the same language. Some
people are able to do this in more than one language. Knowing another language may
mean: getting job, a chance to get educated; the ability to take a fuller part in the life
literacy and cultural horizons; the expressions of one’s political opinions or religious
belief. It affects people careers and possible futures their lives and very identities. In
a world where probably more people speak two languages than speak one language
Chomsky argued that children learn languages that are governed by highly
subtle and abstract principles, and they do so without explicit instruction or any other
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depends on an innate, species-specific module that is distinct from general
intelligence. According to Steven Pinker, all normal human brains come primed for
rules regarding their native language's grammar and syntax, and remember irregular
forms. Children are constantly hearing and processing speech, so their brains are able
to analyze the grammatical structure of the sentences and parse it into basic rules
about the language. As a result, children learn the basic vocabulary of their language,
acquire new vocabulary and learn new idioms and expressions. Likewise, their
grammar modules quickly learn and apply the proper rules of the language.
intermediate, early advanced, and advanced. The rate of progression through each
demonstrates that high levels of proficiency in English can be achieved typically within
four to seven years, provided that effective English language development occurs on
language proficiency level may begin in a "silent stage" where they are unable to
more than they are able to demonstrate in speaking and writing. Initially English
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language learners tend to communicate by pointing, gesturing, repeating words and
beginning language level, they begin to understand, read, write, and speak basic
words. Thus, English language learners progress from basic words to producing basic
intermediate language proficiency level are able to communicate basic and familiar
ideas with simple sentences. They can read and write short paragraphs on familiar
commonly make errors in word usage, pronunciation, and grammar. Thus, at the early
intermediate English proficiency level, students greatly benefit from explicit teaching
sentence/paragraph frames.
varied verb tenses. They can write increasingly developed paragraphs on academic
topics using complex vocabulary and compound sentences. They tend to use
consistent grammar in speaking and writing while making occasional errors. Thus, at
the intermediate language level, English language learners greatly benefit from the
explicit teaching and modeling of basic figurative language, common idioms, irregular
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Early Advanced English Proficiency Level
Students at the early advanced language level are able to understand and
communicate academic content in more cognitively complex ways. They can read and
comprehend grade level text. They are able to write with increasing length,
structures. English language learners at the early advanced language proficiency level
Students at the advanced language level are able to communicate and write
with native-like proficiency. They are able to read and comprehend grade level text
standards. Thus, English language learners at the advanced language level may be
Related Literature
7501 of the Bilingual Education Act, reauthorized in 1994 under Improving America's
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Proficient) is a student who: "Was not born in the United States or whose native
language is a language other than English and comes from an environment where a
who is a native resident of the outlying areas and comes from an environment where
a language other than English has had a significant impact on such an individual's level
than English and comes from an environment where a language other than English is
understanding the English language and whose difficulties may deny such an
Wisconsin Literacy Education and Reading Network Source (2003) defines language
proficiency as "the ability to speak, read, write and understand that language well
and "compete with native language speakers in the classroom" (7 1). The lack of
acquisition continue to fuel debates and disparities between the states (Del Vecchio
& Guerrero, 1995). Among the differences, Del Vecchio and Guerrero (1995)
concluded that definitions of language proficiency share several vital features. They
asserted that most definitions include speaking, listening, reading, and writing in a
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According to Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
(DEEWR), English language proficiency means the ability of students to use the English
forms in the context of their university studies. Some principles stated in the article
methods.
Research Paradigm
and reading and the dependent variable will be the Proficiency of AM10 Students in
English. The researchers will prepare questionnaires for a survey to the respondents
which are the AM10 students. The researchers will conduct the survey as soon as the
questionnaires were done effectively. The questionnaires will test the respondents in
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which area they are expert to and the researchers will get the percentage of each area
To know how proficient the students of AM10 in English, the researchers came
up with this study through conducting a survey. Therefore, studying the proficiency of
1. Is there a probability that all students of AM10 will not have any difficulties in
studying English?
2. Which will have the highest and lowest percentage of proficiency in terms of:
a. Spelling f. Understanding
b. Writing g. Answering
c. Speaking h. Teaching
d. Reading i. Listening
e. Communicating j. Learning
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3. Will this study improve the skills of AM10 students in English?
Hypotheses
1. H1: There will be probability that all students of AM10 will not have any
Ho: There will be no probability that all students of AM10 will not have any
2. Reading will have the highest percentage of proficiency and writing will have
3. H1: The study will improve the skills of AM10 students in English.
H0: The study will not improve the skills of AM10 students in English.
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CHAPTER II
METHODOLOGY
Research Design
This research will be conducted as a quantitative research study and will use
structured questionnaires to collect data from the respondents which are the all
the popularity of surveys. But, just like the other methods, it also has limitations. The
questions, there will be a chance that the respondents will not answer all the
questionnaires and the researchers will not get accurate results from the survey, and
dealing with sensitive subjects or when searching for meaning and understanding.
aimed at the large number of respondents. In most cases these respondents record
their answers in questionnaires, which are then processed and statistically evaluated
by the researchers. In this case, a survey will be conducted which made this study a
quantitative one. The survey will test the respondents’ proficiency in English and it
will focus in which particular aspects of English they are well-skilled and also their
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a. Spelling f. Understanding
b. Writing g. Answering
c. Speaking h. Teaching
d. Reading i. Listening
e. Communicating j. Learning
Instrumentation
Surveys are an effective way to gather lots of information from many people.
This method may be used as a way of quickly gaining some general details about the
respondents’ interest to help prepare the researchers for a more focused study. In
this study, survey research is better suited in answering some kinds of research
question more than others. Survey form will be filled up by the AM10 students as seen
below.
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Survey Form
Directions: Put a check on the column representing your degree of agreement to the
statement given. Please use the following description as guide to your rating:
4 Strongly Disagree
3 Disagree
2 Strongly Agree
1 Agree
QUESTIONS 4 3 2 1
1. I am proficient in speaking in English.
2. I am proficient in writing texts in English.
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Data Analysis
results which will be helpful in the evaluation of data from the questionnaires that the
The respondents will use the Likert Scale to answer the given questions.
4 Strongly Agree
3 Agree
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
The researchers will use the following formula to get the mean of each aspects
and to know which aspects will be the respondents’ well-skilled and not well-skilled
at.
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Collection
data. People can be contacted and surveyed using several different modes: by an
In this study, data collection will be done by the researchers through a survey
information will use in conducting the survey. The responses of all AM10 students as
Procedure
The researchers will conduct the survey in proper and systematic way as
brainstorming and choosing the best closed-ended questions by the majority and
approved by the research adviser. Second, the researchers will prepare, encode and
students of AM10. Third, the researchers will conduct the survey to AM10 students
as soon as the printed materials are ready to be answered by the respondents. This
will take a lot of time and patience in waiting because of the availability of the
respondents, which are all students of AM10 section. Fourth, the researchers will
collect the questionnaires then, examine and analyze the results. Fifth, the
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researchers will compute for the highest, second highest, third highest and the lowest
percentage of the different aspects of English. Lastly, the researchers will formulate
conclusions and generalizations from the results that they will gather and compute
Flowchart
Formulating of questionnaires
Formulating conclusions
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CHAPTER III
In this chapter, the results are discussed and detailed including the tally of the
Disagree (3), Strongly Agree (2) and Agree (1) as well as the percentage of each aspect.
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With the percentages computed above, the researchers used them to create
column graphs as shown below. These graphs will help the researchers to identify
which aspect will get the highest and lowest percentage among all the aspects easily
and analytically.
Table 1
80%
60% 50%
40% 30%
20% 13%
7%
0%
4 (Strongly Disagree) 3 (Disagree) 2 (Strongly Agree) 1 (Agree)
Table 2
80%
57%
60%
40%
23%
20% 13%
7%
0%
4 (Strongly Disagree) 3 (Disagree) 2 (Strongly Agree) 1 (Agree)
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Table 3
80%
57%
60%
40%
13% 17%
20% 10%
0%
4 (Strongly Disagree) 3 (Disagree) 2 (Strongly Agree) 1 (Agree)
Table 4
80%
60%
46%
40%
17% 20% 17%
20%
0%
4 (Strongly Disagree) 3 (Disagree) 2 (Strongly Agree) 1 (Agree)
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Table 5
80%
60%
40%
40% 30%
13% 17%
20%
0%
4 (Strongly Disagree) 3 (Disagree) 2 (Strongly Agree) 1 (Agree)
Table 6
80%
60% 53%
40% 27%
20% 10% 10%
0%
4 (Strongly Disagree) 3 (Disagree) 2 (Strongly Agree) 1 (Agree)
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Table 7
80%
60% 53%
40% 27%
20% 13%
7%
0%
4 (Strongly Disagree) 3 (Disagree) 2 (Strongly Agree) 1 (Agree)
Table 8
80%
60% 50%
40% 27%
20% 10% 13%
0%
4 (Strongly Disagree) 3 (Disagree) 2 (Strongly Agree) 1 (Agree)
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Table 9
0%
4 (Strongly Disagree) 3 (Disagree) 2 (Strongly Agree) 1 (Agree)
Table 10
Respondents that are Proficient in Learning and Finding New and Difficult
Words in English
100%
80%
60%
40%
40%
23% 20%
17%
20%
0%
4 (Strongly Disagree) 3 (Disagree) 2 (Strongly Agree) 1 (Agree)
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CHAPTER IV
This chapter presents the findings and results of the gathered data which were
previously stated. Also, this chapter states recommendations that are useful to make
Conclusions
As derived from the data gathered, analyzed and interpreted, the following
finding new and difficult words in English gathering 17% of each of the
stated aspects.
3. The respondents, AM10 students, strongly agreed that they are most
out of 30 students rated this one as their most proficient aspect in English.
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4. Seventeen out of thirty respondents agreed that they are proficient in
writing and reading texts in English gathering 57% of each of the said
aspects.
5. With the results gathered, the researchers therefore conclude that there
Summary
in English. This study used a quantitative research method and will use structured
questionnaires to collect data from the respondents which are the all students of
The respondents of the study were the thirty students of AM10 class. Findings
of the study revealed that AM10 students were mostly proficient in understanding
texts in English. This means 8 out of 30 students strongly agreed that this aspect is
their most proficient aspect in English. In other hand, the AM10 students are least
proficient listening songs, statements and manuscripts in English and learning and
finding new and difficult words in English which means 5 out of 30 students strongly
disagreed that these two aspects are their least proficient aspects in English.
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Recommendations
In the analysis of the findings and conclusion drawn in this research, the
English.
4. Conduct more related studies to test and improve the skills of the
respondents in English.
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Appendices
Appendix A
Survey Form
Directions: Put a check on the column representing your degree of agreement to the
statement given. Please use the following description as guide to your rating:
4 Strongly Disagree
3 Disagree
2 Strongly Agree
1 Agree
QUESTIONS 4 3 2 1
1. I am proficient in speaking in English.
2. I am proficient in writing texts in English.
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Appendix B
Letter to Respondents
Dear Respondent,
of AM10 Students in English”. This research study requires us to have a survey for our
Disagree (3), Strongly Agree (2) and Agree (1). Kindly rate your proficiency in different
4 Strongly Agree
3 Agree
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
The Researchers
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Appendix C
Curriculum Vitae
Name of Parents
Educational Background
Secondary
Year: 2015-2016
Primary
Year: 2011-2012
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Bautista, Marc Adrian Ramos
Address: Sumabnit Binalonan Pangasinan
Age:17 years old
Birthday: February 15, 2000
Contact Number: 09753838802
Name of Parents
Educational Background
Secondary
Year: 2015-2016
Primary
Year: 2011-2012
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Caoayan, Evette Lyza Abella
#312 Station District, Rosales, Pangasinan
17 years old
February 01, 2000
0906-025-8420
Name of Parents
Educational Background
Secondary
Primary
Achievements: Salutatorian
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Elefante, Tegee Becka De Vera
Pasileng Norte Binalonan, Pangasinan
17 years old
July 22, 1999
09274258478
Name of Parents
Educational Background
Secondary
Year: 2015-2016
Primary
Year: 2011-2012
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Nagtalon, Jonel Guzman
Baro,Asingan,Pangasinan
17 years old
December 7, 1999
09461902936
Name of Parents
Educational Background
Secondary
Year: 2015-2016
Primary
Year: 2011-2012
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Ogana, Aishye D.
Sta. Lucia, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan
17 years old
July 19,1999
Name of Parents
Educational Background
Secondary
Year: 2015-2016
Primary
Year: 2011-2012
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Pimentel, Dennielle G.
Bacag East Villasis Pngasinan.
17 years old
November 03, 1999
09058802058
Name of Parents
Educational Background
Secondary
Year: 2015-2016
Primary
Year: 2011-2012
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Saraza, Johncel Rivera
Camang Riverside Urdaneta City Pangasinan
17 years old
November 6, 1999
09067337064
Name of Parents
Educational Background
Secondary
Primary
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Velasco, Wilmerson Manzano
Casantiagoan sur, Laoac Pangasinan
17 years old
December 17, 1999
09975641119
Name of Parents
Educational Background
Secondary
Year: 2015-2016
Primary
Year: 2011-2012
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Appendix D
Documentation
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