Republic of the Philippines

MARINDUQUE STATE COLLEGE

GRADUATE SCHOOL
Tanza, Boac, Marinduque

MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION major in LANGUAGE TEACHING

(Accreditation Level II) by the Accrediting Agency for Chartered Colleges Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP), Inc.
Name: MARY GRACE S. DU
COURSE: MAED Major in Language Teaching
SUBJECT: EDL 222 English for Specific Purposes Theory, Methods and Materials

TARGET SITUATION ANALYSIS

The half of Grade I- Ruby learners of Tugos Elementary School have difficulties in

blending specific letters to form syllables and words. They find it difficult to blend specific

letters to form syllables and words because blending is a crucial skill that every child needs to

start reading unknown words.

a. Why is the language needed?

The use of English language in writing and speaking especially in

communicating is indeed very important skill that every learner must have. In writing,

speaking and communicating using English language especially in first graders, one

should have a knowledge in blending specific letters to form syllables and words

because blending is the skill that helps them read and speak, especially when

confronted with unfamiliar words. For young children like in Grade 1, most words are

unfamiliar and they will need to blend many of the words they encounter. It involves

pushing together the sounds of the letters in the word in order to create the whole

word. For example, a child trying to read the word ‘fish’, will isolate each of the letter

sounds. When these three sounds are said in sequence, the word ‘fish’ is spoken.

Because of the pandemic, children today suffer difficulty in learning language

School Goal: The Graduate School prepares competent professional leaders who commit themselves to effect
positive changes to the community and responsive in providing efficient and excellent
leadership in private and public sectors.
 Republic of the Philippines
MARINDUQUE STATE COLLEGE
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Tanza, Boac, Marinduque

MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION major in LANGUAGE TEACHING

(Accreditation Level II) by the Accrediting Agency for Chartered Colleges Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP), Inc.
wherein the teacher in Grade One uses different strategies on how to teach the

learners to learn language.

b. How will the language be used?

Blending is the ability to put letter sounds together to read a word. To read a

word, children must know the sounds the letters represent in the word and be able to

blend those sounds to come up with the correct word. For example, after children

know the letter sounds /f/ for f, /ĭ/ for i, and /sh/ for sh, they learn to blend those

sounds together to read the whole word. When they see the word fish, they are able to

say, "/f/ /ĭ/ /sh/, fish." We call this, blending because you are putting sounds together

to read a word.

c. What will the content areas be?

Half of the Grade I learners already know the sounds of some but not all the

letters of the alphabet , and that is why it seems to be difficult for them to blend letter

sounds in forming a word. This lesson will be a great help for them to be familiar with

the different letters of the alphabet which will surely develop their skills in learning

language.

d. Who will the learner use the language with?

The Grade I learners will use the learnings in order to speak fluently using

English language. As their adviser during their first grade, I was able to identify my

students who are having difficulty in reading specially in blending sounds of the

School Goal: The Graduate School prepares competent professional leaders who commit themselves to effect
positive changes to the community and responsive in providing efficient and excellent
leadership in private and public sectors.
 Republic of the Philippines
MARINDUQUE STATE COLLEGE
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Tanza, Boac, Marinduque

MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION major in LANGUAGE TEACHING

(Accreditation Level II) by the Accrediting Agency for Chartered Colleges Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP), Inc.
letters to form a word. After this lesson, I am expecting that I will be able to help

them to decode unfamiliar words using letter-sound patterns when reading. 

e. Where will the language be used?

To develop my learner’s skills in communicating using English language, I

implemented English Speaking Campaign inside our classroom. When one of them

speaks in tagalog, they have to get and read words or phrases prepared inside our

“Word Box”. Through that, they will be able to use their learnings in blending letter

sound in order to read the words or phrases that they got from the box.

f. When will the language be used?

The language will be used in the classroom during the lecture or during

communication with their classmates and friend. It will surely help them to be

confident in speaking or in reading inside the classroom.

School Goal: The Graduate School prepares competent professional leaders who commit themselves to effect
positive changes to the community and responsive in providing efficient and excellent
leadership in private and public sectors.