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East Campus

IMPACT OF USAGE OF NANG AND NG TO THE ORAL AND WRITING


SKILLS OF STUDENTS OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY

A Research Paper Presented to


Ms. Jalilah H. Baniaga MA.Ed
Faculty, Senior High School
Immaculate Conception Academy

In Partial Fulfillment
of the Subject Requirements for
PRACTICAL RESEARCH II

First Semester, SY 2020-2021

By:

ARCALA, MONICA RACHELLE C.


ARREZA, KRISTINE MAE S.
BALBOA, FRANCHEZKA JAIMARA V.
BAUTISTA, MARJORIE A.
CABAMONGAN, ANN KRISTINE
CAMERINO, ZYRA D.
CRUZ, CRANBERRI D.
GO, JANNA MARIE T.
MALIPOT, RAMILYN S.
SANTUYO, ALLYNA ANDREI P.

September 2020
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APPROVAL SHEET

October 27, 2020

MR. YURI ANTHONY D. ABAD


Principal
Congressional Road, 4114
Dasmariñas, City, Cavite
Philippines

Greeting of Peace and Prosperity!

This research entitled “IMPACT OF NANG AND NG USAGE TO THE ORAL AND
WRITING SKILLS OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY STUDENTS”
prepared and submitted by students of Grade 12 Panday Pira namely: Monica Rachelle C.
Arcala, Kristine Mae S. Arreza, Franchezka Jaimara V. Balboa, Marjorie A. Bautista, Ann
Kristine DL. Cabamongan, Zyra D. Camerino, Cranberri D. Cruz, Janna Marie T. Go, Ramilyn
S. Malipot, Karylle N. Robles and Allyna Andrei P. Santuyo would like to ask your humble
office to allow us to conduct this research study.

In view of the above mentioned we truly believed that you are with us to grant our permission
for the partial fulfillment of our subject Practical Research II and to develop our well – being.
We are looking forward that our request would merit your favorable and positive response to
approve this study and your valuable time would be much appreciated.

Thank you and God bless,

Sincerely,
The researchers
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Recommending Approval:

_______________________________
JALILAH H. BANIAGA, M.A.ED.
Research Adviser

_________________________
YURI ANTHONY D. ABAD
Principal - East
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October 27, 2020

MS. LUCILYN S. NIERE


Principal
Dasmarinas City, Cavite
Philippines

Greeting of Peace and Prosperity!

This research entitled “IMPACT OF NANG AND NG USAGE TO THE ORAL AND
WRITING SKILLS OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY STUDENTS”
prepared and submitted by students of Grade 12 Panday Pira namely: Monica Rachelle C.
Arcala, Kristine Mae S. Arreza, Franchezka Jaimara V. Balboa, Marjorie A. Bautista, Ann
Kristine DL. Cabamongan, Zyra D. Camerino, Cranberri D. Cruz, Janna Marie T. Go, Ramilyn
S. Malipot, Karylle N. Robles and Allyna Andrei P. Santuyo would like to ask your humble
office to allow us to conduct this research study.

In view of the above mentioned we truly believed that you are with us to grant our permission
for the partial fulfillment of our subject Practical Research II and to develop our well – being.
We are looking forward that our request would merit your favorable and positive response to
approve this study and your valuable time would be much appreciated.

Thank you and God bless,

Sincerely,
The researchers
Immaculate Conception Academy
East Campus

Recommending Approval:

_______________________________
JALILAH H. BANIAGA, M.A.ED.
Research Adviser

_______________________
LUCILYN S. NIERE
Principal - West
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APPROVAL SHEET

October 27, 2020

MS. MA. VERONICA H. MEDINA


Principal
Governor's Dr, Langkaan
Dasmariñas City, Cavite
Philippines

Greeting of Peace and Prosperity!

This research entitled“IMPACT OF NANG AND NG USAGE TO THE ORAL AND


WRITING SKILLS OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY STUDENTS”
prepared and submitted by students of Grade 12 Panday Pira namely: Monica Rachelle C.
Arcala, Kristine Mae S. Arreza, Franchezka Jaimara V. Balboa, Marjorie A. Bautista, Ann
Kristine DL. Cabamongan, Zyra D. Camerino, Cranberri D. Cruz, Janna Marie T. Go, Ramilyn
S. Malipot, Karylle N. Robles and Allyna Andrei P. Santuyo would like to ask your humble
office to allow us to conduct this research study.

In view of the above mentioned we truly believed that you are with us to grant our permission
for the partial fulfillment of our subject Practical Research II and to develop our well – being.
We are looking forward that our request would merit your favorable and positive response to
approve this study and your valuable time would be much appreciated.

Thank you and God bless,

Sincerely,
The researchers
Immaculate Conception Academy
East Campus

Recommending Approval:

_______________________________
JALILAH H. BANIAGA, M.A.ED.
Research Adviser

_________________________
Ma. VERONICA H. MEDINA
Principal – South
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CERTIFICATE OF RESEARCH INSTRUMENT VALIDATION

October 27, 2020

Ms. RHINA JAE ARCALA

Statistician

Quezon City, Philippines

Greeting of Peace and Prosperity!

The undersigned are grade 12 students of Panday Pira of Immaculate Conception Academy East
– Campus are conducting a research entitled “IMPACT OF NANG AND NG USAGE TO
THE ORAL AND WRITING SKILLS OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY
STUDENTS”

With your expertise, we are humbly asking for your assistance and permission to validate our
questionnaires made by the researchers in the form of likert scale that will be conducted towards
the respondents of this study. Knowing that you are the most fit and capable to be the evaluator
for this matter we are looking forward that our request would merit your favorable and positive
response to accomplish this research study.

Your valuable time would be much appreciated.

Thank you and God bless.

Sincerely,

The researchers
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Noted By:

JALILAH H. BANIAGA, M.A.ED.


Research Adviser

Validated By:

Ms. Rhina Jae B. Arcala


Statistician

MONICA RACHELLE C. ARCALA KRISTINE MAE S. ARREZA


Researcher Researcher

FRANCHEZKA JAIMARA V. BALBOA MARJORIE A. BAUTISTA


Researcher Researcher
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ANN KRISTINE DL. CABAMONGAN ZYRA D. CAMERINO


Researcher Researcher

CRANBERRI D. CRUZ JANNA MARIE T. GO


Researcher Researcher

RAMILYN S. MALIPOT KARYLLE N. ROBLES


Researcher Researcher

ALLYNA ANDREI P. SANTUYO


Researcher

_____________________________________________________________________
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CERTIFICATE OF RESEARCH INSTRUMENT VALIDATION

October 27, 2020

Mr. John William Baylon

LPT

Bacoor City, Cavite


Philippines

Greeting of Peace and Prosperity!

The undersigned are grade 12 students of Panday Pira of Immaculate Conception Academy East
– Campus are conducting a research entitled “IMPACT OF NANG AND NG USAGE TO
THE ORAL AND WRITING SKILLS OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY
STUDENTS”

With your expertise, we are humbly asking for your assistance and permission to become our
thesis grammarian as we believe in your knowledge and abilities to guide us as we accomplish
this study for the partial fulfilment of our subject Practical Research II. We are looking forward
that our request would merit your positive response.

Thank you and God bless.


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Sincerely,

The researchers

Noted By:

JALILAH H. BANIAGA, M.A.ED.

Research Adviser

Validated By:

Mr. John William P. Baylon

LPT

MONICA RACHELLE C. ARCALA KRISTINE MAE S. ARREZA


Researcher Researcher

FRANCHEZKA JAIMARA V. BALBOA MARJORIE A. BAUTISTA


Researcher Researcher
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ANN KRISTINE DL. CABAMONGAN ZYRA D. CAMERINO


Researcher Researcher

CRANBERRI D. CRUZ JANNA MARIE T. GO


Researcher Researcher

RAMILYN S. MALIPOT KARYLLE N. ROBLES


Researcher Researcher

ALLYNA ANDREI P. SANTUYO


Researcher

_____________________________________________________________________
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page
TITLE PAGE i

APPROVAL SHEET ii

ACKNOWLEDMENT iii

DEDICATION iv

ABSTRACT v

TABLE OF CONTENTS vi

LIST OF TABLES vii

LIST OF FIGURES viii

CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Background of the Study 1


Conceptual/Theoretical Framework 4
Statement of the Problem 5
Hypothesis 5
Scope and Delimitations of the Study 6
Significance of the Study 7
Definition of Terms 8

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND


STUDIES

Foreign Literature 9
Local Literature 12
Foreign Study 14
Local Study 16
Synthesis of Reviewed Materials
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD AND PROCEDURE
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Research Design 20
Locale of the Study 21
Population and Sampling Techniques 22
Data Gathering Procedure 22
Research Instrument 23
Statistical Treatment of Data 23

CHAPTER IV PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND


INTERPRETATION OF DATA

TITLES OF TOPICS/VARIABLES/DATA STUDIED

CHAPTER V SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND


RECOMMENDATIONS

Summary of Findings
Conclusions
Recommendations

REFERENCES 24

APPENDICES

Letters
Questionnaire
Photo Documentation
Experimental Lay out

CURRICULUM VITAE
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LIST OF TABLES

Table No.
Page

1. Frequency and Percentage Distribution


of the Participants as to Profile

2. Percentage Distribution and Ranking of


Fringe Benefits Given to the Employees

3. Weighted Mean, and Verbal Interpretation


on the Effects of Fringe Benefits to Work Efficiency
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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure Page

Fig 1 Research Paradigm 4

Fig 2 Locale of the study 24

Fig 3

Fig 4

Fig 5

Fig 6

Fig 7

Fig 8
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CHAPTER I

THE PROBLEM AND IT’S BACKGROUND

Background of the Study

Nang and Ng are words used in Filipino language. These words are frequently used by

Filipinos whenever they speak. Nang is used as a conjunction telling time and as a modifier.

On the other hand, Ng is used as a conjunction of a verb to the object of the sentence, and it is

the Tagalog equivalent of the English preposition ‘of’. These words became often misused by

Filipinos in both written works and oral communication. Most of them are students that are

also having confusion when it comes on the proper usage of these prepositions. Confused on

determining which is which, nang and ng can be traced back to the Spanish era, and the writers

were just as confused as current generation are.

They say it is not important if you're grammatically incorrect as long as you express the

way you want. However, when it is used in an improper way, you can't convey your idea well

and because of this, the meaning may differ the way they understand it.
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The researchers chose this topic to know the impact of the proper usage of nang and ng to

the reading and writing skills of students. Researchers also want to know if there is a

relationship between the proper usage of nang and ng and reading and writing skills

According to Mella (2008), any language is easy to use by its native speaker only if it is

being used for conversational purposes. However, when it is used formally, proper grammar is

required; and this surely poses a big challenge even to native speakers of that language. Having

said that, the researchers are differentiating the Filipino words ‘ng’ and ‘nang’ from each other.

Orally, these words are interchangeable; after all, they are homophones of each other [A

homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and

may differ in spelling; ‘ng’ and ‘nang’ are homophones of each other]. However, when used in

written form, they are not interchangeable; meaning, you should use them accordingly and

properly.

As stated by Gamboa (2020), both long and short form trace back to the Spanish era, and the

writers of their time were just as confused as the younger generations are. There was only the

word “nang,” as evidenced in Doctrina Christiana (1953), the first book ever printed in the

Philippines. Later, Dr. Jose Rizal proposed to abbreviate the word and incorporate a tilde to

represent its sound, thus the birth of “ñg.” It was only in 1940 that Lope K. Santos standardized

the rules of using “nang” and “ng” without a tilde to signify a multitude of meanings. Its telling

history, however, doesn’t excuse this generation’s bad habit. Modern generations use these words
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with great frequency, and they’re confusing because spellings in conversations are often

disregarded, nor decent enough to dot the i’s and cross the t’s in chat box exchanges.
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Conceptual Framework

Fig. 1 Research Paradigm

Figure 1 shows that conceptual framework is used to guide the researchers throughout the study.

Survey questionnaires were used as an instrument to know the impact of the usage of “nang and

ng” to the Senior High School students. Furthermore, the researchers aim to know if there is a

significant relationship between the usage of nang and ng to oral and writing skills.
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Statement of the Problem

The purpose of this study is to know the impact of knowing the

proper usage of using "nang" and "ng" to the students of

Immaculate Conception Academy when it comes to their oral

and writing skills. Specifically, the study also aims to provide

answer to the following questions:

Hypothesis

Ha: There is a significant relationship between knowing the impact of Nang and Ng to the

reading and writing skills of Immaculate Conception Academy students.

Ho: There is no significant relationship between knowing the impact of Nang and Ng to the

reading and writing skills of Immaculate Conception Academy students.

Scope and Delimitations of the Study


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This study focuses on the senior high school students of Immaculate Conception Academy,

east campus, west campus and south campus. This involves a survey questionnaire for the

selected senior high school students that came from campuses mentioned. The selection of

respondents was limited since there is a great number of senior high school students in each

campus.

This research is designed to have a thorough knowledge in the impact of usage of nang and

ng to the reading and writing skills of students of Immaculate Conception Academy.

Significance of the Study


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The study focuses on analyzing the importance of usage of Nang and Ng to the reading and

writing skills of the students of the Immaculate Conception Academy, the result of the study will

be beneficial to the following:

Students. This study will help the students to know the impact of usage of Nang and Ng in

their oral and writing skills.

Teachers. This study will give them awareness and help them create future actions about the

issue of using Nang and Ng and their proper respective purpose.

Future Researchers. This study can be used as a basis for future studies related to this paper,

thus, they can enrich and fortify the framework of this study. The researchers can make their

own insights that had not been stated in this research.

Definition of Terms
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Nang. The counterpart of the English conjunction "when".

Ng. The counterpart of the English preposition "of".

Oral skills. The verbal practice using the words "nang" and "ng" of the students.

Writing skills. The practice using the words "nang" and "ng" through written words.

CHAPTER II
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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

The review of related literature of this study focuses on the impact of nang and ng to the

reading and writing skills of the students.

Local Literature

According to Alfie Vera Mella, any language is easy to use by its native speaker only if it

is being used for conversational purposes. However, when it is used formally, proper

grammar is required; and this surely poses a big challenge even to native speakers of that

language.

Having said that, the researchers are differentiating the Filipino words ‘ng’ and ‘nang’

from each other. Orally, these words are interchangeable; after all, they are homophones of

each other [A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs

in meaning, and may differ in spelling; ‘ng’ and ‘nang’ are homophones of each other].

However, when used in written form, they are not interchangeable; meaning, you should use

them accordingly and properly. (Mella, 2014)

According to Manuel R. Tanpoco (2019) Language, the conversion is an invasive term

that has given rise to different meanings and testing methods. This paper sought to recognize
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interlanguage conversion errors visible in CEU 's three broader schools/colleges 'published

outputs and their consequences for the Philippines' new educational curriculum, the K to 12

Senior High School. Conversation makes sense in a dialogue; agreement of definitions

between the communicators is a back and forth. Grammatical errors are more prominent

particularly in the use of verb, pronoun, and preposition; other forms of transmission errors

such as lexical, semantic, and mechanical errors have a little problem; students participating

in various programs have varying language requirements as shown by the form and degree of

transmission errors occurring in their written compositions.

As stated by Reyno (2018), it is not enough for the students to identify the parts of a

speech but it is going to be more meaningful if he could use it to communicate with other

people. The proper usage of language is very powerful for it is a way for Filipinos to have

strong identity.

According the study conducted by Lasala (2013), the communicative competence of the

students both in speaking and writing skills are acceptable having a rate of 3.15 and 2.48

respectively. They stated that they can improve their writing and oral skills. They also

mentioned about how teachers’ pronunciation during the class can help improve students’

ability. How a teacher should proceed with correction of spoken and written errors is a very

important question. Earlier the author had the opinion that teachers should be extremely

cautious about correcting students’ spoken errors and after studying he got even more

convinced. Wrongly pronounced words could be brought up in class but the teacher should
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not say who made the error. It is not sure how to correct written errors though. During the

author’s previous school placement periods, the teachers did not correct every error since

they said that “as long as it can be understood by a native speaker it does not matter”. Daily

life is becoming more and more global which means that the importance of the English

language will increase and the demand for English speaking employees will rise as well. This

basically means that regardless of what people’s future occupation will be, they will be

expected to possess adequate knowledge of proper English. That is a fact that should

encourage everybody to develop their language.

In a study conducted by Tanpoco (2019), his paper attempted to find out interlanguage

transfer errors evident in the written outputs of CEU’s three bigger schools/colleges and their

implications to the new educational program of the Philippines, the Senior High School of

the K to 12. Oral communication makes sense in a dialogue; it is a back and forth negotiation

of meanings between the communicators. On the other hand, written communication is read;

therefore, misinterpretations of the meanings of the message being transferred are

unavoidable and sometimes worsened (Penman, 1998). This study determined the types and

extent of transfer errors in the written compositions of the student-respondents through Error

Analysis and was found out to have been contaminated with errors in grammar, lexical

choice, semantics and mechanics. Grammatical errors were found to be most prevalent

especially in verb, pronoun and preposition usage; the other types of transfer errors such as

lexical, semantics, and mechanics do not show much problem; students enrolled in different
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programs showed varying language needs as revealed by the type and extent of occurrence of

transfer errors in their written compositions. Through the findings and conclusions drawn

from this study, the researcher recommends that curriculum planners of the K to 12 program

consider the implications the result of analysis of this study in their preparation/ revision of

the basic education curriculum for the Senior High School. Furthermore, the researcher

encourages the basic education teachers and college instructors of English to intensify the

teaching of grammar, reading comprehension to reconcile meanings and enrich vocabulary

loading to avoid recurring transfer errors among their students’ written outputs.

Foreign Literature

According to Savage et. al. (2010), communication may be interrupted if the use of

grammar is incorrect in the areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing. With a wrong

grammar, communication may not be effective.

According to Shorthand and Gregory (1991) “successful language communication

through the modes of speaking and writing requires constant practice. This means taking

interest in the target language, making mistakes and putting them right. At the end of it all,

you will find more challenges of language use which enhance communication in context”.

Floden (1997), advocates for content and methodology that would help students to learn

about them and the target environment in which language has to be used accordingly.

Furthermore, he emphasizes the need for teachers to investigate their method of teaching for

speaking and writing. He continues to argue that classroom teaching espouses language
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communication that takes advantages of the emerging global consciousness through speaking

and writing with some objectives and aims.

Grammar may be roughly defined as the way a language manipulates and combines

words in order to form longer units of meaning. There is a set of rules which govern how

units of meaning may be constructed in any language: one may say that a learner who knows

grammar is one who has mastered and can apply these rules to express him or herself in the

acceptability of the language forms (Chung & Pullum, 2015).

Within the growing field of scholarly literature on foreign language (FL) writing

pedagogy, few studies have addressed informative questions regarding the teaching of

writing to advanced language learners. Writing fellows peer tutoring programs, although

typically associated with first language writing instruction, likely can benefit and support

advanced language students learning to write in FL contexts. Using a mixed‐methods

approach, the authors compared two sections of an upper‐division Portuguese literature class

that employed writing fellow tutors with two sections that did not. Data suggest that

incorporating writing fellows into FL contexts affected how students learned to write: (1) the

papers of students who worked with writing fellows exhibited more developed thought, (2)

students who worked with writing fellows employed more successful writing strategies, and

(3) students who worked with writing fellows exhibited changes in their writing processes for

future writing assignments. These conclusions suggest that the inclusion of peer tutors such
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as writing fellows may be an effective pedagogical practice for teaching writing to advanced

FL learners. (Snyder, Nielson & Kurzer, 2016).

Local Study

The function of both Ng and Nang as a relational marker connects with other fields such

as orthography and grammar teaching. As the two forms function similarly, it is not rare to

encounter errors in distinguishing their orthographic forms (Gallego, 2020)

Linguistically speaking, errors in spelling are indeed caused by confusing the two forms

as this function quite similarly in the language. However, if we indeed merge the two

morphemes into a single orthographic representation, the obvious differences in behavior and

distribution would be overlooked. It is suggested that the orthographic distinction between

Ng and Nang be retained since there are still major differences existing between the two

forms. However, teaching the usage of the two morphemes must be fine-tuned, not only

focusing on their distribution but more importantly, on their minute differences in function

and co-occurrence relations as illustrated in this study. (Zubiri, 2020).


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According to Lesada (2017), the Philippines has code switching varieties that was used

by the Filipino citizens. The two languages that was mostly used, being mixed, are English

and Filipino or Tagalog. Philippines has been known as the nation of vast linguistic diversity

so it was not a surprise to hear that Taglish is one of the used mixed language of the citizens.

Due to this impact, an interview has been conducted in the Metro Manila last 2016 to know

the Proficiency of the Filipinos in Tagalog and English. It shows that most of the participants

are fully proficient in Tagalog as a result of being born in a Tagalog-based city in the

Philippines. Data were released to see what Tagalog Enclitics were popularly used. One of it

is Ng, in English, it was translated as linker. Some of the meaning may have been changed by

the way it was used. In using the prefixes, it was mostly attached to the verb, all outside

system morphemes. As they "realize the grammatical frame of a clause and must come from

ML" and "allow for mapping of predicate-argument structure onto morpho-syntactic

realization at the functional and positional levels." (Myers Scotton and Jake, 2016).

Forgetting about talking in fully Tagalog, Taglish is starting to increase. There is a plausible

argument for the display of language convergence in Taglish, it is the rise of the SVO word in

Tagalog Matrix. (Lesada, 2016).


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According to Gamboa (2020), over the years, it has been a debate in the interchanging

“ng” and “nang” as an application in online contexts. However, some students get away and

use these words with the wrong purpose. When doing essays, students tend to write “ng” and

“nang” without knowing their rules and meanings. Though there is no justification to prove

that there is a technical error, it is stated that there is a pure neglect on the part of the students

and teachers.

According to Quvanch (2010), writing skill is one of the important skills in the English

language. In order to overcome some challenges faced by English as second language and

English as foreign language learners, different technologies are recommended to be used, and

one of the examples is blended learning approach. Therefore, the paper aims to present a

review of previous studies related to the impact of blended learning on the students’ writing

skills in English to examine if the blended learning method can make an impact on writing

skills.

Foreign Study

In a study conducted by Panahi (2020), there was an overall consensus over the

effectiveness of the discourse-based grammar teaching approach on encouraging interactions

among the students and its impact on EFL learners’ writing performance and reading

comprehension ability. This study showed that if grammar instruction is content-based,

meaningful, contextualized, and discourse-based rather than sentenced-based, it provides the


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learners with the ability to communicate comfortably and effectively in both spoken and

written language.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the code-related characteristics used in

current high school classroom writing instruction methods pass the reading results to high

school students. The researchers of the study have randomly allocated 3 instructional classes

to students: a writing workshop group, an interactive writing group and a control group. The

effects of this full-year experimental research indicate that the development of substantial

early reading abilities can be complemented by code-based writing training. The implications

of those findings are presented. (Jones & Reutzel, 2014)

An individual’s progress in reading and language development is different as it was stable

in childhood. The reading and vocabulary are intertwined and the individual’s oral skills will

develop in the late childhood stages. According to Suggate (2018), the ages that the three

phenomena will be assessed are in 15 years as it will be spanning for the children in the ages

of 19 months old to 16 years old. Early language development and reading skills will

generally be strong as they learned it in their early age. In their 12 years of age, the reading

comprehension will be developed as well as their vocabulary, it includes the literacy skills as

they will improve it in their school. In their 19 months old of age, they developed their

emergent literacy. This proves that the reading comprehension, reading skills, as well as their

oral skills will be strong as they will learn it in a young age and improve it in school.
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The term fluency which is defined as the ability to use the language quickly and

confidently without too much hesitations or too many unnatural pauses to cause barriers in

communication (Bailey, 2003). According to Byrne (1986), the process of learning English

as a foreign language has frequently occurred in the minds and thoughts of both teachers and

students recently. In other words, fluency is an expectation for anyone who wish to be

competent in a target language that they have spent their time and efforts to acquire.

Results showed that EFL teachers seem to make corrections to improve learners'

accuracy during speaking, grammar and vocabulary knowledge and pronunciation skills and

that EFL teachers believe that error correction may contribute to habit formation in terms of

self-correction among students, pragmatic and appropriate use of the target language,

learners' accuracy and fluency. Another conclusion stated that teachers concentrate on

pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary errors that directly distort meaning while speaking,

and that they seem to use various strategies to correct errors. It was recommended that the

curricula of teacher training programs should include topics to raise awareness of the issues

such as reasons to make corrections, situations that require corrections, error types and

correction strategies. (Uysal et al, 2017).


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Synthesis of Reviewed Materials

Review of related literature and studies manifest that the reading and writing, nang and ng has a

impact to students. There are differences in the filipino words between nang and ng (Mella,

2014). Grammar may be roughly defined as the way a language manipulates and combines

words in order to form longer units of meaning (Chung and Pullum, 2015). The function of both

Ng and Nang as a relational marker connects with other fields such as orthography and grammar

teaching (Gallego, 2020). This study showed that if grammar instruction is content-based,

meaningful, contextualized, and discourse-based rather than sentenced-based, it provides the

learners with the ability to communicate comfortably and effectively in both spoken and written

language (Panahi, 2020).


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CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHOD AND PROCEDURE

This chapter presents the research design, locale of the study, population and sampling

techniques, data gathering procedures, research instrument, and statistical treatment data.

Research Design

This study used the quantitative correlational research design to determine

the impact of usage of nang and ng to the reading and writing skills of students of

Immaculate Conception Academy. Quantitative correlational is a research design

where researchers seek to understand what kind of relationships naturally

occurring variables have with one another. This data aims to perceive the range

to which different conditions can be acquired among these subjects.


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Locale of the Study

The researchers led an exploration at Immaculate Conception Academy located in the

city of Dasmarinas Cavite.

This campuses was selected to know the level of understanding of the Senior High

students with regards to nang and ng.

Fig. 2 East, South and West Campus


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Population and Sampling Techniques

The researcher used the fishbowl method as the sampling technique to conduct this

research. The respondents of the study will come from the Senior High School - STEM

students from East, South and West Campus. Each member of the population has a chance to

be selected in the sample respondents of the study.

Data Gathering Procedure

The researcher dispensed questionnaires, written in English dialect and followed

certain procedures in conducting this study. Data were gathered through:

1. A letter of permission was made and will be submitted to the school principal.

2. Once the letter was approved, the researchers will use simple random to choose the

respondents with the assistance of the research adviser.

3. The researchers will message the selected students to conduct the online survey through

Google forms.
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4. Afterwards, they will kindly asked for the respondents to answer the questionnaire and

will send the link of the form that will be answered.

5. After the survey, the researchers will gather all the data given by the respondents that

supported the study and analyze it with the help of their statistician.

Research Instrument

The researchers will use online survey as the research instrument. This will test the

validity and reliability of the research study. The questionnaires will be close ended questions

and will contain three parts: the impact of "nang" and "ng" to the students, the level of oral

and writing skills and its significance to the usage of "nang" and "ng". The researchers will

hand out the survey to the Senior High School students of Immaculate Conception Academy,

East Campus, West Campus, and South Campus.

Statistical Treatment of Data

The researchers will use the 5-point Likert Scale Method. The respondents will take an

online survey to answer 20 questions using the method prepared by the researchers. The type

of measurement in this research is ordinal. To interpret the data, the researchers will be using

the mean and standard deviation.


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