Effectiveness Of Technology-Based Reading Materials To The Reading Performance Of Grade 4 Pupils In English

AUTHOR(S)

ANALYN L. PELAYO

ABSTRACT

—— This study was conducted in order to evaluate the Effectiveness of Technologybased reading Materials to the reading Performance of the Grade 4 learners in English. The findings of the study were the bases for a proposed enhancement Plan. This research is a quasiexperimental study. The researcher utilized universal Sampling in selecting the respondents of the study. The test of difference between the pretest and posttest scores performances of the grade 4 learners in before and after the integration of Technology-based reading materials To The Performance Of The Grade 4 Learners In reading. The pre-test performance of the Grade 4 learners in the different literacy skills or reading skills that needs to be learned by the learners specifically in English before the learners who are the Grade 4 will be experiencing or exposing the different materials which integrated by technology to be used as intervention which is resulted to the pretest scores and considered to be lowered than the posttest scores. The test scores in the pretest and posttest performances resulted to the computed t value which is greater than the critical t value. So the hypothesis which states that there was no significant difference between the pretest and posttest performance before and after the integration of the technology-based reading materials is rejected. Based from the results in table 3, it implied that before the integration of the intervention, the grade 4 learners really need to be thought on how to become independent readers considering that the performance that they have shown during the pretest validation is very low and it needs to be done as early as possible to address whatever learning gaps they have experience from the past grading or grade level. One of the reasons of having this type of results is that maybe they are not really motivated to learn how to read and comprehend to the different text that the teachers have shown to them thus, they gained very low rating or scores. But after they all experience the intervention, they found out that the intervention is really effective and help them to become independent reader. They also experience fun in learning considering that the learners who were belong in the fair level of performance were improved to the good and very good level of performance which means that the intervention applied by the teacher is really effective and it addresses the learning gap of the learners when it comes to reading Keywords — Effectiveness, Technology-Based Reading Materials, Grade 4, Learners, Mathematics