CHAPTER 4

Discussion

This chapter discussed the result, conclusion, and recommendation of

reading comprehension and its significant relationship to academic

performance of grade 10 students of Atty. Orlando S. Rimando National High

School.

Summary of the findings

The main problem and objective of the study was to identify the

relationship of both variables which were reading comprehension and

academic performance. The study has been conducted at Atty. Orlando S.

Rimando National High School with a respondents of grade 10 students. The

result of the data’s that have been calculated tells that there is a significant

relationship between reading comprehension and academic performance of

grade 10 students.

The result of the study was supported by the study of Woolley (2011),

reading comprehension is the process of making meaning from text. The

goal is to gain an overall understanding of what is described in the text

rather than to obtain meaning from isolated words or sentences. It is also

supported by Horowitz (2014) reading comprehension is a complex

cognitive process that the reader must also be intentional and thoughtful

while reading, monitoring the words and their meaning as the reading

progresses. So, they do not only read the text but also they can get the

meaning and are able to construct the sentences.

 As cited by Mutchar (2015), A basic instructional result is attitude

toward reading. Reading experts now understand the importance of attitudes

in reading. It is obvious that attitudes are important considerations and factors

in reading. There could be being predisposed to act in a way that is either

positive or negative toward someone group, establishment, circumstance, or

thing. Of course, they are closely tied to however, interests are frequently

considered to represent larger, more generic sensations.

A student's reading ability indicates that they have the potential or

capacity to read. the ability to decipher or derive meaning from textual

material. Thus, the capacity to read is a skill. required for people to function

and succeed in school. Reading skill is very important for students to

understand because facts are offered and made available throughout the text

world (Kudo & Bazan, (2013).

In addition, According to Hanzon et al. (2021), student and staff ratings

of school facilities are highest in elementary and high schools, but there is

substantial variation across schools. Ratings of the quality of school buildings

and facilities are lowest in schools with greater percentages of African

American and Latinx students and schools with higher levels of

socioeconomic diversity. Schools with lower levels of Asian and white

students and those who are eligible for free/reduced-price meals were found

to have the least positive school climate. These schools also exhibited higher

chronic absentee rates, suspension rates, and levels of student- and staff-

reported violence victimization.

 Lastly, Dabarera et al. (2014) and Ghafournia (2014) suggest that

reading strategies should be taught explicitly in order to make students aware

of them and their effectiveness, and enhance students’ confidence in reading

and motivation to learn on their own. Ahmadi and Ismail (2012) claim that the

explicit teaching of reading strategies is a solution to the problem of poor

reading comprehension skills. Explicit guidance and explicit instructional

techniques (like questioning, predicting, making inferences, and summarising)

make a significant improvement in students’ reading comprehension by

helping them to apply reading strategies in reading classes. Reading

instruction should start from the word-level activity to help students make

connections between decoding words in a text and understanding the

meaning of it as a whole (Yeh et al., 2012).

Conclusion

The accumulated and analyzed data enabled the researchers to

construct the study's conclusion. The first problem, resulted that the level of

reading comprehension of grade 10 students of Atty. Orlando S. Rimando

National High School was interpreted as high. In the second problem, the

overall mean for the indicator of academic performance was interpreted as

very satisfactory. Lastly, for the third problem, the study resulted that there is

a significant relationship between reading comprehension and the academic

performance of grade 10 students.

Recommendation

The fact that the study resulted to a significant relationship between the

two variables gives great impact to the studies having a variable reading

comprehension and academic performance. In addition, it resulted in a

significant relationship but there was only an enough force in both variables

leads them to become significantly related.

To enhance the students reading comprehension may goodly affect

their academic performance in school. Specifically, to the factors of reading

comprehension were students’ attitude toward English comprehension,

Students’ reading abilities and strategy use, students’ perception of facilities

and resources, and students’ attitudes toward reading instruction and

teaching strategies.

The parents may encourage their children and support them in all

aspects that may affect their performance in school. Thus, the students will be

motivated and active in doing reading performance.

The teachers must be the tool of the students in learning in school. For

they were the one who will mold the students based on their way of teaching.

Their teachings could be the basis of the reading comprehension of the

students.

Future researchers are encouraged to conduct the study to cover a

wide range of reading comprehension strategies that suit students’ levels and

individual differences. Since research studies examining the link between

students’ reading comprehension and their achievement in English are rare,

further research in this area is in need, particularly in response to the ever-

changing needs of students, hence, are encourage also to seek other factors

in conducting the study. Geographically speaking, they are also encouraged

to conduct the study in the other area of Municipality, Province, Region, or

places where they feel the urgency upon.