Developing Reading Comprehension Through Content- Based Instruction: An Experimental Study

English Language

Content – Based Instruction is one of the methods that is believed to improve and develop reading comprehension to the students. It exposes students to different types of approach as well as strategies which actively involved them in understanding a reading text. Furthermore, CBI is also believed to enhance the linguistic and intellectual abilities through the content being delivered to the students. This study is a one group quasi- experimental approach wherein the researcher utilized a personal made module along with the pretest and post-test as the instrument. The researcher used the Christology as the content to test the effectivity of CBI in developing reading comprehension to the students. The respondents of the study were the Grade 11 GAS students in Assumption College of Nabunturan school year 2022-2023. The result of the experimental study reveals that content – based instruction indeed develops reading comprehension to the students. The result reveals that students gain -8. 79 significant increase of reading comprehension after the conduct of the study. Moreover, the result of the study reveals that using other content aside from English subjects could be utilized by the teacher to develop reading comprehension to the students. Additionally, Religious Education teachers could teach the students the content of the subject while teaching them other skills needed for the improvement of their reading comprehension. The Administrator and English subject coordinator could make a curriculum suited for the development of comprehension to the students and implement not just in English subjects but to another discipline as well.

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