Reading Comprehension (2024)

This webpage is developed byGEORGE P. LUMAYAG.

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE
INTRODUCTION
Rationale of the Study
In educational institutions around the world, teachers are using the desktop computers, laptops, e-tablets, i-pads, mobile phones, projectors and wide television sets. Some of these teachers are using the websites in their teaching instructions.
According to Deborah Mau, (2016) states that the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE; 2013) stated that merely being able to use technology is no longer adequate in the world; rather, students must acquire skills to investigate, learn, and analyze through technology use. It is imperative that educators prepare young people to function globally with technological expertise as cited by Richardson, (2013). The classroom website is one vehicle that can coordinate all of the students’ investigations, learning activities, and enables them to analyze their progress and function productively in the classroom, and later globally. The Classroom website is the technology tool, this study shall focus on to explore the necessary support that the International Society for Technology in Education and its purpose is vital to ensuring the learning benefits possible.
As cited by Deborah Mau, (2016) that numerous research studies have confirmed the benefits of incorporating technology in classrooms to enhance learning. A classroom website can be the hub of many innovative and successful learning technologies. Deborah Mau, (2016) states that Woo, Chu, and Li (2013) investigated the use of a wiki for collaborative writing in a Chinese primary school in Hong Kong. Through a mixed-methods approach, findings indicated a significant increase in content level comments, a significant improvement in students’ group writing, and an increased ease in communicating through technology as it is also cited by Woo et al., (2013).
Likewise, according to Andria Moon et. al. (2016) states that student-centered activities using the iPad with the goal of improving reading comprehension in a fifth-grade classroom were implemented from their action research study. Their study states that the university teacher candidates guided fifth-grade students in completing the iPad reading comprehension activities. And findings indicate that the fifth-grade students increased their reading achievement scores to a statistically significant degree during the period of their study. Furthermore, their study states that the students also reported more enjoyment and understanding of reading.
In addition, according to Stephanie Elizabeth Maynard, (2016) states that in the concerns about the reading comprehension skills of students in the United States have been raised partly because of the introduction of digital products into their lives and the classroom setting. It is cited by Stephanie Maynard, (2016) that the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards results from 2013 that were provided by the Arizona Department of Education indicated that reading scores drop from 1 point up to 30 points in Grade 8. Considering to these results, the researcher is also trying to develop a website innovation that can be used in teaching and learning and most especially to the conduct of this quasi-experimental study to know the effects of classroom-website in the reading comprehension level of students using the website elements.
In the Philippines, the state provides a national budget for the Department of Education (DepEd) and implements the DepEd Computerization Program (DCP) wherein all public schools in the Philippines shall be provided with DepEd Computerization Program package or packages depending on the schools’ enrolment every year. These computers shall be utilized by teachers in teaching the subjects.
The DepEd Computerization Program (DCP) has been supplemented over the years by initiatives of other national government agencies such as the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Department of Tourism and Industry (DTI), and by donations from local government units, non-government organizations, and private firms as cited by Tinio, 2003 and also cited by Lumayag, (2016) (unpublished thesis).
DepEd Order No. 78, s. 2010 issues the Guidelines on the Implementation of the DepEd Computerization Program (DCP). With the legal mandate of promoting the right of all citizens to take appropriate steps in making education accessible to all, the Department of Education (DepEd) is geared towards the transformation of education through the DepEd Computerization Program (DCP). It aims to provide schools with appropriate technologies that would enhance the teaching-learning process and meet the challenges of the 21st century. This program shall respond to the computer backlog of public schools by providing them hardware and software, and training on simple trouble shooting. Through this program and the combined efforts of other government agencies and the private sector, 5,409 public secondary schools have been provided with at least one computer laboratory each during its first implementation. This ranges from 10 – 20 computer units including other peripherals depending on the agencies providing the computer units. The objectives of the DepEd Computerization Program are to provide computer laboratory packages to secondary schools; provide eClassroom to elementary and secondary schools; provide laptop units to mobile teachers; integrate ICT in the school system; raise the ICT literacy of learners, pupils, students, teachers and school heads; and reduce the computer backlog in public schools. Although the backlog in the deployment of computer laboratories to public high schools is targeted to be finished by the end of the school year, the issue on obsolescence of existing ICT resources and improving the computer-student ratio at the secondary level shall be addressed by SY 2010 – 2011 as stated in DepEd Order, (2010). Former Education Secretary Jesli Lapuz announced that ICT-based educational materials are now being pilot-tested in selected public schools in the Visayas via the Learning Resource Management and Development System (LRMDS) to enhance learning among students. The move is part of the DepEd’s continuing development of educational tools that are responsive to the needs of the 21st century as stated in DepEd, (2009) which is cited by Lumayag, (2016)
In the modern trend of English teaching especially in teaching reading comprehension, the teachers can really use the computers, television sets, and other gadgets. Moreover, they can also use the internet and browse reliable websites which can help them in teaching students. The teachers can even develop their classroom-websites for free using the sub-domain that can be used in their teaching instructions.
However, traditional teaching to students is still applicable especially in the competency of reading comprehension. Presently, teachers are now using the technology in their teaching instructions; since some teachers in America have developed their classroom websites as cited by Deborah Mau, (2016) states that research has confirmed the benefits of incorporating technology, such as course websites, within public school classrooms to enhance student learning. And the researcher believes that some teachers are using website elements such as hypertexts and hyperlinks in reading comprehension. This is the very purpose that the researcher is planning to conduct the study pertaining to the

when using the website elements. Heis a member of the DepEd Cebu Province Division ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Development Team who is designated by the Schools Division Superintendent to support the Division Information Technology Officer in the implementation of the different ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Programs initiated by the division office; to conduct ICT (Information and Communications Technology) trainings and other related trainings hosted by the division office; to perform other related functions as may be assigned or delegated to him by the Schools Division Superintendent. Heis a web developer who develops his classroom-website innovations for teaching and learning at this link: https://georgelumayag.weebly.com/website-innovations.html. Hehas conducted a series of action research studies approved by the Schools Division Superintendent. These action research studies are in relation to the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in the categories: teaching and learning and governance. Heis a Master of Arts graduate, major in Administration and Supervision from Cebu Technological University (CTU) Argao-Campus, Poblacion, Argao, Cebu, Philippines. And heis an English teacher who believes that teaching English with the use of classroom website is one of the best ICT practices and innovations in teaching and learning. read more...