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TITLE OF THE STUDY

First Author 1, Second Author 2, Third Author 3, Fourth Author4, Fifth Author5, (add as many
authors)
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Department, Institute, City, State, Country
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Department, Institute, City, State, Country
3
Department, Institute, City, State, Country
3
Department, Institute, City, State, Country
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Department, Institute, City, State, Country

(Ex. English Department, Institute or School or University name, City/Province, Country)

ABSTRACT
The abstract should not be more than 250 words and written in a single paragraph. The
abstract includes the overall purpose of the study, the research design employed, a brief
summary of the methodology, the process of analysis and an overview of the results.

Keywords: Keyword 1; Keyword 2; Keyword 4; Keyword 5; Keyword 6

INTRODUCTION

The introduction provides the context of the study and a summary of related literature (use
APA in-text citation). It also provides the rationale for the study such as but not limited to the
following: a research gap, the timeliness of the topic, the observed potential or actual problems
to be addressed or an innovation being proposed.

Author/s should refer to themselves in the third person i.e. “the researchers of this study.”

Research Questions

This is commonly known as the Statement of the Problem. The research questions and sub
questions should be numbered.
METHODOLOGY

This section should include the locale of the study (the name of the institution need not be
mentioned if permission was not obtained for this purpose), the sampling method used, the
respondents and their demographics if available (unless included in the Results section), the
specific data gathering procedure utilized, the instrument/s used, details of the instrument/s
(Ex. Number of items, Likert, instrument’s author or if it is researcher-made, whether pilot-
testing or validation was done). The process of analysis should be described (statistical
treatments if quantitative or thematic analysis approach if qualitative. The scope and limitations
should also be included here.

RESULTS

For quantitative research, the results may be presented with tables and figures. Each table and
figure should be labelled and numbered consecutively.

For qualitative research, the results may be presented through a narrative or the themes may
be presented in tables.

DISCUSSION

Each of the tables or narrative in the Results section should be discussed here including the
researchers’ interpretations of the same and may also present how the results are connected
with the related literature cited in the Introduction, whether they are consistent or inconsistent
with previous studies.

Conclusions

This section specifically addresses each of the Research Questions in the Introduction.

Recommendations

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This section may include how the findings may be applied or if future research is necessary
using other samples or larger samples or with a different approach. If the results of the current
study appear curious or unexpected, the researchers may recommend further research to
verify the same or to investigate the possible reasons.

Compliance with Ethical Standards

This is a declaration by the author/s in paragraph form which includes compliance with
obtaining informed consent, the respondents’ freedom to withdraw from the study at any time,
anonymity of the respondents were maintained, the respondents were not exposed to any form
of harm, no conflict of interest exists in the conduct of the study, plagiarism was strictly
avoided, there was no bias in the interpretation of the findings and that the results was used
purely for research.

Acknowledgments

This section may include a statement of gratitude in general to the people who assisted in the
conduct of the study, to the respondents, to the author/s of the instruments, etc.

REFERENCES
The references should be in APA format and alphabetically arranged.