The document discusses several issues and challenges related to teaching English in the Philippines including a lack of clarity in curriculum standards, confusion among concepts being taught, low student performance in reading, writing, speaking and listening skills, and challenges teachers face in implementing new curriculum standards effectively. Some specific problems mentioned are teachers' lack of confidence due to unclear guidelines, students experiencing trauma and low skills from confusing lessons, and the absence of clear definitions for key terms leading to different interpretations. Potential solutions proposed include providing more guidance for teachers on improving specific skills at each grade level, using educational games and activities, and developing students' 21st century skills in English.
The document discusses several issues and challenges related to teaching English in the Philippines including a lack of clarity in curriculum standards, confusion among concepts being taught, low student performance in reading, writing, speaking and listening skills, and challenges teachers face in implementing new curriculum standards effectively. Some specific problems mentioned are teachers' lack of confidence due to unclear guidelines, students experiencing trauma and low skills from confusing lessons, and the absence of clear definitions for key terms leading to different interpretations. Potential solutions proposed include providing more guidance for teachers on improving specific skills at each grade level, using educational games and activities, and developing students' 21st century skills in English.
The document discusses several issues and challenges related to teaching English in the Philippines including a lack of clarity in curriculum standards, confusion among concepts being taught, low student performance in reading, writing, speaking and listening skills, and challenges teachers face in implementing new curriculum standards effectively. Some specific problems mentioned are teachers' lack of confidence due to unclear guidelines, students experiencing trauma and low skills from confusing lessons, and the absence of clear definitions for key terms leading to different interpretations. Potential solutions proposed include providing more guidance for teachers on improving specific skills at each grade level, using educational games and activities, and developing students' 21st century skills in English.
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(p.11) they followed their guidelines reading comprehensions and in lesson plan and the that’s why students need to students they don’t face their challenges in understand of their concepts developing skills in the level during the lesson proper and of participation in learning even the content, the learning English. outcomes, and the students’ academic performance. In the subject of English, teachers can’t seem confidently in speaking and motivational skills in teaching because they lack of clarity and lack of self-confidence through performance in teaching. According to (DepED, 2016); It seems in the curriculum Confusion Being a foreign language it states that the curriculum guide in English, it is quite Traumatize of Students. teacher, you should know the claims the features various confused and traumatic for Depression/ Anxiety. accents or pronunciations in text types will be taught by the students to read, write and Low performance without order for the students to the students. In these types or listen skills. Even the teachers using these 21st century skills. understand by reading of the genres of reading, listening, are quite durable enough to Misunderstood of the part of sentences/ phrases or words and viewing texts that the teach the students in foreign a lesson. that they need to improve students needs to improve of language for example; I think Lack of self-confidence. reading skills and not just their skills especially when it one of my memories when I reading skills, but also comes to writing and was in 3rd year high school writing, listening and speaking skills fluency are was that I learned and speak speaking development skills. not yet specified. (p.11) in Mandarin during the foreign language class. And it seems to be my worse in speaking mandarin or Chinese. Even the sentence structure, it is quite messed up and even my classmates are difficult to enhance it. And, it makes us blast our brain and low performance. The Philippines has initiated In the BEC or Basic Low skills in reading, writing, Students needs to accomplish English Curriculum reforms Education Curriculum, pupils speaking and listening skills. their playing educational to respond effectively to the in the elementary level are in Inhibition high levels in games like grammar structure demands of 21st century the same level of skills but, cognitive and evaluative and vocabulary and spelling education and the current some students who got a low skills in the level practice of words. Parents need guidance educational problems of the scores in the quiz or exam English. for their children to learn country such as low because they low Some students who got a low read, write, listen and achievement test scores and performance in reading, score in the quiz or exam due speaking skills through congested curriculum. (p.12) writing, listening and to use their logical and gaining knowledge to speaking skills. Or, maybe interpretative skills instead of improve of their skills in they doesn’t know the knowledge acquisition. teaching English. meaning of the words. And Misunderstanding of their also, in speech laboratory opinions. sometimes students are difficult in pronunciations According to (Paterson, The absence is that these key Language Extinction. The only way solution for that 2010), the absence of a terms in teaching Rigidity. problem is to develop definition for a key terms it English/Language for the Students are bored enough students on how to read, may lead to lack of uniform students may it lead to lack of while the teacher is write, listen and speaking interpretation of these uniform interpretation discussing his/her lesson. skills. Because, it is very concepts consequently because teachers seemed to important for the students in broadening the gap between be unprofessional and learning English. Because, it the intended and the unprepared and sometimes, needs to be improve these implemented curriculum. they lack communication skills in order to (p.11) skills because students are accommodate them to provide quite confusing because they some guidelines; procedures don’t know of what the and activities in order to teacher said. understand reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. According to (Hardman & A- Teachers are responsible Depression/ Anxiety. The Benefits of being an Rahman, 2014); teachers are enough to prepare their Low performance in English Teacher are the ff: facing their challenges on materials and lesson proper Teaching. - Developing the 21st how they can implement the for the students to entertain Stress. century skills in teaching new curriculum properly them and to execute them Miscommunication skills. English. because some teachers are with the use of motivational Improper of format of lesson - Face the Hard challenges. struggling so much in skills. But, sometimes plan. - Valuable work teaching and its due to lack of teachers are imperfect Low performance. experience. specificity on processes, teaching performance due to Unprepared materials. - To be interpret to the strategies, and approaches as lack of communication skills; students while discussing Lack of self-confidence. they manage their own time low teaching performance the lesson. in teaching during the and lack of self-confidence - Be Cooperative classroom basis. (p.11) during the teaching basis - Leadership inside the classroom. - Self-confidence. - Open-minded.