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Introduction
This chapter presents the background of the study, statement of the problem, hypothesis,
students. It is one of the ways for getting knowledge that cannot separated from every
learning process and it does only happen in educational field but also in our daily life. For
advertisements and etc. It is a skill utilized in every academic subject area, it is a logical
Reading comprehension is the crucial link to effective reading which is essential for
a rich academic, professionals and personal life. Reading fluency is a very important part of
reading comprehension as readers who spend their time decoding words, tend to lose the
learning success. To get further knowledge, students are required to have a critical and
information through various types of reading materials such as textbooks, journals, reports
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or electronic messages. However, not all the students are good at comprehending the text
being read. Most of them understand the informational of the text but struggling to
comprehend what the underlying meaning and purpose beyond the text are.
Some researchers (Duffy, Pearson) state that having students generate their own
information in the reading strategies in which the readers can monitor their thinking
1. What are reading comprehension level of grade 9 students of Bula National High
School?
students?
Hypothesis
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Significance of the Study
Teacher. The result from this study will give them information they needed when
planning for the teaching strategy or method to be more effective it the classroom.
Students. This study will help them evaluate their academic performance.
Future Researchers. This study can be used as reference of their study. Provides
additional evidence to support the findings that a relationship between reading comprehension and
This study aimed to determine the significant relationship between reading comprehension
This study utilized the grade 9 teachers of the said school. A survey questionnaire provided
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Chapter II
Conceptual Framework
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Chapter III
Reading comprehension is the ability to learn and process information from written
sources. Its primary step is decoding, which is the act of assigning sounds and meaning to letters
and words. But as simple as defining reading comprehension may be, it is notoriously difficult to
teach. Reading comprehension is the ability to process text, understand its meaning, and to
integrate with what the reader already knows. If word recognition is difficult, students use too
much of their processing capacity to read individual words, which interferes with their ability to
comprehend what is read. Simply put, reading comprehension is the act of understanding what you
are reading. While the definition can be simple to teach, learn or practice. Reading comprehension
is an intentional, active, interactive process that occurs before during and after a person reads a
Reading comprehension is one of the pillars pf the act of reading. When a person reads a
meaning from the text. This last component of the act of reading is reading comprehension. It
cannot occur independent of the other two elements of the process. At the same time, it is the most
difficult and most important of the three. There are two elements that make up the process of
text, the reader must be able to comprehend the vocabulary used in the piece of writing. If the
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individual word doesn’t make the sense then the overall story will not either. Students can draw on
their prior knowledge of vocabulary, but they also need to continually be taught new words. The
teacher or institution has attained their short- or long-term educational goals. Completion of
educational benchmarks such as secondary school diplomas and bachelor’s degrees represents
academic achievement.
assessments but there is no general agreement on how it is best evaluated or which aspects are
most important -procedural knowledge such as skills or declarative knowledge such as facts.
Furthermore, there are inconclusive results over which individual factors successfully predict
academic performance, elements such as test anxiety, environment, motivation, and emotion
required consideration when developing models of school achievement. Now, schools are
receiving money based on its students’ academic achievements. A school with more academic
achievements would receive more money than a school with less achievement.
performance MacGregor and Price (1999), noted that vocabulary, number and symbol sense, as
well as the ability to read and comprehend, word problems are important factors affecting
achievement in mathematics. The ability of symbol processing is the basis for both language
proficiency and mathematics achievement. MacGregor and Price (1999) noted that poor language
skills do correlate with poor math skill suggesting that both require a basic level of competency in
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In investigating the relationship between science performance and reading comprehension
Sochor (1958) noted that reading comprehension was related to comprehension of science texts.
He emphasized the fact that is important in science reading for students to be able to remember
symbols, formulas, specific vocabulary terms and procedure for conducting experiments if they are
between school subjects performance with reading ability and reading comprehension.
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Chapter IV
Methodology
This chapter presents the details of the study that shows reading comprehension and
academic performance of the students as to where and when the study was conducted and what
statistical tool was used in this study. Its also presents the data gathering procedure and data
analysis.
After the approval to conduct the research, the research survey questionnaire was given to
the Grade 9 teachers of Bula National High School. The respondents were given time to answer the
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