https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14353/141 2026-05-29T16:52:31Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14353/1043 Storytelling: Towards enhancement of reading skills among selected learners of indigenous peoples in Panay Araneta-de Leon, Rosalea Cornelia; Castigador, Belen A. Reading is a major developmental skill which is directly related to academic achievement. As such, educators continually strive to come up with strategies that will improve this particular skill among learners. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of using storytelling coupled with direct instruction in the reading of sight words among selected IP learners enrolled in an elementary school. The researchers designed the storytelling and tutorial session interventions that were implemented by SPEDSA student-tutors. The DOLCH Sight Words List was used to measure reading skills. Pre- and post-test DOLCH results of the learners were subjected to a Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test to test for significant difference. Interviews with teachers and journals student-tutor leaders were analyzed. A significant increase in the pre- and post-test sight-words reading was noted. Interviews as well as the journals' analyses point to a positive change in the attitude towards reading of the learners after the interventions were conducted. Recommendations include: continuing and expanding the reading interventions among the learners to include not only sight but also phonemic words; individualizing direct instruction for learners experiencing difficulty in reading; telling stories in the IPs' mother tongue to improve comprehension; and, conducting further studies on other strategies that can improve learners - both IP and non-IP's- reading skills. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14353/1042 The first one thousand commonly used Hiligaynon words: A Hiligaynon - English compendium for the teaching of mother tongue Alcudia, Fina Felisa L.; Dequilla, Ma. Asuncion Christine V.; Rosano, Daisy; Bilbao, Purita P. The implementation of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education under the Enhancement Basic Education Act of 2013 has cause a stir not only to the education sector but to the general public as well. Among teachers and curriculum planners, the scarcity of materials in the regional language training and preparation of teachers posed initial problems, while for the general public, parents included, the popularity of English as a favored language and medium of instruction prevailed as a language perspective and attitude. In an attempt to address both concerns and in support of MTB-MLE, this project was undertaken in order to take look into real life Hiligaynon language through an automated process using a software or computer program initially developed by Leyte Normal University. Known as corpus linguistics, the method used for the study involved encoding into the software Hiligaynon texts both oral and written. The texts used for the project were a mixture of various genre to ensure that the domains in Hiligaynon were represented. A total of 401,323 word language corpus was generated by the software. Out of the corpora that were gathered, the commonly used Hiligaynon lexical items were listed in a compendium or a dictionary containing the definition, pronunciation, synonyms, usage as found in the original texts and part of speech of the generated word. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z