VISUAL CLUES: A STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WORD RECOGNITION

Education

Visual clues can aid in making a concept more concrete for the readers. While learners may have vivid imaginations, they may require assistance in visualizing some concepts as part of their learning. As such, this paper is interested to determine if visual clues are effective in improving students’ word recognition. This study aimed to determine: the pre-test scores between the experimental group; significant difference of the pre-test scores between the control and experimental group; post-test scores between the control and experimental group and; significant difference of the post-test scores between the control and experimental group. This research is a quasi-experimental research and was conducted to the twenty-one (21) Grade 2 learners as the respondents from Sta. Felomina Elementary School. Moreover, the researcher used a pre-test and post-test as well as a researcher-created questionnaire that underwent validity and reliability testing. The results of the study shows that both the pre-test scores between the control and experimental group failed to achieve the expectations, implying that the respondents’ ability to recognize words needs to be improved. In terms of their mean comparison, it turns out that while neither met the expectation, they nevertheless differ significantly. Meanwhile, with the post-test scores between the control and experimental group, the findings shows that the respondents from the control group did not meet the expectation however, the experimental group’s respondents did, which implies that, the word recognition of the respondents in experimental group improved than with the respondents from control group. As a result, the paper discovered that the traditional method of teaching students to read is no longer successful. Teachers may use new changing interventions in increasing the learners’ word recognition, such as visual clues, in their everyday reading habit sessions in order for the learners to gain the skill, word recognition, in becoming a skilled reader.

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