Bauan Technical High School

Research title

Rationale of the Study

(Task 1)

GROUP 5:

GR 12 HUMSS- B

Leader:

Caringal, Alezandra C

Member:

Abrea, Kier C

Agulo, Axcel M

Del Castillo, Rachel A

Medrano, Gennica B
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“The Effective Strategies on improving BTIHS HUMSS Students’ Reading

Comprehension Skills.”

Rationale of the Study

Reading comprehension plays an important role in human life. Its role is

realized as very substantial because it opens up new knowledge for individuals.

The goal is to gain information from what the writer conveyed through a text and

uses this information to enrich his/her experiences and to improve his/her

intellectual ability.

Reading comprehension is the process of constructing meaning by

coordinating several complex processes that include word reading, word and

world knowledge, and fluency. Readers comprehend a text when they are able

to communicate with a text. They are able to draw the information from written

text and interpret this information appropriately. In other words, reading

comprehension is a kind of interaction between the readers and the text through

written symbols to grasp the information from written text.

However, not all students are good at comprehending the text being read.

Most of them understand the informational of the text; in other words, they are

good at decoding the text but struggling to comprehend what the underlying

meaning and purpose beyond the text are. In this condition, the reason why
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some students struggle is due to the lack of reading comprehension strategies

used as parts of background knowledge (Texas Education Agency, 2012).