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ACTION RESEARCH
Presented to:
MR. RICHARD C. CHING
The researchers:
Jedemrey D. Almodiel
Ryan D. Pan
Alvin J. Remulta
MAY 2023
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APPROVAL SHEET
The research here to attached entitled “THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE LEVEL OF
COMMUNICATION SKILLS TOWARDS THE ACADEMIC OUTPUT OF SELECTED
GRADE 4 PUPILS AT E S T A M P A R ELEMENTARY SCHOOL” prepared
and submitted by Estampar Interns. In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Bachelor of
Elementary Education (BEED).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, we are grateful to the ALMIGHT GOD for his guidance and Assistance.
Also, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Mr.Richard Cerrudo Ching for
his Vital Support, guidance, and encourage without it which this research would have
come forth.
We place on record, our sincere gratitude and thanks to our school, teachers, and to others
for providing us with all necessary facilities.
We also take this opportunity of this research for their sincere and valuable
guidance and encouragement extended.
We wish to express also our sincere thanks to all the persons for their help. Also, to our
parents for their unceasing encouragement and support.
Lastly, we also place on record our sense of gratitude to one and all who directly, or
indirectly, have tent their helping hand in this research.
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DEDICATION
We thank you God before anything else, we thank God for the guidance. Not just in our
research but also on our daily life strength that he had given to us.
Third, to our groupmates researcher’s names: who had given their very best to finish their
research paper. To the ideas and helps and for the amounts of expenses this research paper won’t
be done without you guys.
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This Chapter introduces the introduction about our research entitled “The Factors
Affecting the Level of Communication Skills Towards Academic Output Among Selected Grade
4 Pupils at Estampar Elementary School” Speech is a purposeful human activity it is not just a
movement or energy or noise but a systematically organized activity (Clark & Yallop 1). It is
even more difficult since. Filipinos are only second language speakers, whose target language
can mostly be heard on radio, watched on television shows, read upon books and other materials.
The sound and quality of the speech is the most important factor in spoken communication.
Whatever position on life, speaking English clearly and phonetically will make a better
impression for everyone (www.numbered.com) so speech is a special gift to and a privilege of a
man (Fletcher 219). Man, then uses this to communicate his thoughts, feelings, desires, and
aspirations to his fellow beings. However, in any cases, man fails in his endeavor to express
himself clearly. Hence the need for man to undergo formal training in effective communication
(Ross 25).
This is consonance with the government’s medium. Term development plan which aims to
provide Education for all (EFA). This means that basic education should be given for free to all
elementary pupils and high school students in all public schools. This has been formulated and
implemented so that the learners could enhance their potential in communication.
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With these, students are encouraging to see themselves as multi-dimensional entities and
as active participants in the learning process. Not merely passive recipients of knowledge and
wisdom. This is being supported by the learning competencies enumerated in the Philippines
Elementary School Learning Competences (PESLC) (s.2006 p.230) which stipulated those
students should learn to use conversational gambits in face-to-face interaction to obtain
information and express ideas meaningfully. The learner should also know on how to agree or
dis agree. With assertions made by justifying one’s stand in open forum, informative tasks, panel
discussions, and debates on any important issues.
These features clearly present that the aim of learning is for the students to have
communicative competence of the language. However, in Estampar Elementary School where
the researchers are studying, most of the students when they are asked to speak in English, taller
in expressing their thoughts in terms of diction, modifiers, verbs, tenses, and subject verb
agreement with this, they are observed as deficient in the use of the language.
This scenario prompted the researchers to conduct this study because it is necessary that
students should be efficient in speaking the English language. With the fast pace modernization
of the surroundings, students can hardly retain concepts taught orally. They fine materials outside
the school such as computers, television’s, cellphones, and the like more interesting than usual
teaching aids. As a result, they tend to forget and disregard the lesson especially in the language
class.
The purpose of this study is to find out if there is a significant relationship between the
student’s profile under the Factors affecting the level of communication skills towards the
academic output of selected grade 4 pupils at Estampar Elementary School and to device
strategies, plans and eventually proposed actions which eventually provide answers to our
hypothesis perceived.
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LOCALE OF STUDY
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This study is anchored on (Social Psychology and Social Identity Theory) why Speaker
seeks to Converge or diverge from the language, dialect, accent, and behavior of them. These
theories will help explain why according to Social Identity theory. A positive social identity by
either joining groups where they feel more Comfortable or doing move positive experienced of
belonging to the groups, they already belong to is what people doesn’t have that much interest in
learning to communicate using other dialect. There are four main Sociological theories first is the
Similarity attraction this theory suggests that “the more similar our attitudes are beliefs, the more
likely it is for them to attracted to us”. (Wikipedia) A theory that shows the wherever we are
belong to or what is our surroundings has a big thing to do with communicating. Second is the
Social Exchange process. This theory “States that prior to acting, we attempt to assess the
rewards and costs of alternate courses of actions”. This is where we tend to choose whatever
actions that would bring grater reward. This theory explains why we lost the confident to speak
on front because were afraid to be judge when we commit mistakes while speaking. Third is the
Casual attribution process. This suggest that “we interpret other people’s behavior and valuate
the individual themselves, in terms of motivations that we attribute as the cause of their
behavior” in this theory this shows the fear of speaker to be misunderstand by the listener. “And
last is the intergroup distinctiveness in this process as theorized by Tajfel argues, when members
of different groups are in contact, they compare themselves on dimensions that are important to
them such as personal attributes, abilities material possessions and so forth”. This theory shows
our aim to be different within a group, for the reasons this may explained why communicating or
speaking is difficult.
Does the level of communication skills of the student depend on; gender, profile of the
student/ teacher and or the capacity of the learners to learn.
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This will be answered by the process of collecting data and it will be happened as we
head on with the distributions of questionnaires.
1. What is the profile of grade 4 pupils in terms of age, gender, parents’ educational
attainment, and family income?
2. What is the rating of the selected grade 4 pupils in their communication skills
subject?
3. What are the greatest challenges encountered by the grade 4 pupils at Estampar
Elementary School in terms of good communication?
4. What are the factors affecting the level of communication skills towards the
academic output of selected grade 4 pupils and to what extent?
5. How do teachers address pupils having difficulty in communication?
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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
This Chapter flows the research titled “The factors affecting the level of communication
skills towards the academic output among selected grade 4 pupils at Estampar Elementary
School”
To further gathered data from on respondents eventually placed the overall by work in
gathering collecting results written in on research problem.
Hypothesis
Research Questions
Distributing Questionnaires
Collecting Results
Collection Results
Analysis Data
Gathering of results
Interpreting results
Conclusion
The general problem of this study is why do Elementary grades (grade 4 pupils of
Estampar Elementary School have difficulties on their communication skills which affect their
academic output of the existence of “English Language” subject in grade 4 during the school
year 2022-2023.
The main Variable of the study is the Factors affecting the level of communication skills
towards the academic Output of selected grade 4 pupils with in the Academic Year 2022-2023
The Respondents are the Elementary grade (grade 4 pupils) of Estampar Elementary
School.
In this study the researcher wanted to identify the common errors in their communication
skills and how it affects the academic performance.
6. What is the profile of grade 4 pupils in terms of age, gender, parents’ educational
attainment, and family income?
7. What is the rating of the selected grade 4 pupils in their communication skills
subject?
8. What are the greatest challenges encountered by the grade 4 pupils at Estampar
Elementary School in terms of good communication?
9. What are the factors affecting the level of communication skills towards the
academic output of selected grade 4 pupils and to what extent?
10. How do teachers address pupils having difficulty in communication?
11. What suggestions can the teacher offer to improve communication skills of pupils?
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This study provides essential information which would be beneficial to the following:
Learners. They will be able to identify the significant of such, which aims at developing
the communication skills and acknowledge the interdependence of language and communication.
This will aid them to better interact in the process of transmitting learning for learners are given
the task to accomplish using the language instead of studying the language.
Teachers. It will help them to design the better criteria for assessing (Students) pupils
learning and setting relevant outcomes in ensuring the pupils’ progress. This study will be
significant endeavor in promoting high (Standards) quality education to the future learners. They
can better choose the appropriate methods, techniques, strategies, and approaches in inculcating
learning and setting high standards of outcomes which are of great help for them as their basis
for doing such.
Future Researchers. This will aid them in conducting future studies relevant to the present
study. This will satisfy them with necessary information in making related research.
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This study clearly focuses at the factors affecting the level of communication skills of
Elementary grades in Estampar Elementary School within the academic 2022-2023.
Communication skill of pupils was only limited to financial status, attitudes of the people
surround them. Teachers and pupils profile based on gender, age, learning materials and problem
of transportation. The performance of the pupils will be analyzed by the group through series of
observation or empirical research. Every pupil, parent’s occupations, personal and social growth
were the components that is included in this study.
This study will be limited only at Estampar Elementary School. (Grade 4 pupils) which
can be located in the third district of Masbate. The approximate population of Estampar
Elementary School is 60% are female and 30% are male and 10% are homosexuals.
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ASSUMPTIONS
The factors affecting the level of communication skills towards academic. The cognitive
elements of competence include knowing how to do something and understanding why things
are done the way they are. People can develop cognitive competence by observing and
evaluating the actions of others. Competences can also be developed through instruction.
Individual factors affect our ability to do anything. Not everyone has the same intellectual
ability. At the individual level, a person’s physiological and psychological characteristic effect
competency.
The factors affecting the level of communication skills towards academic output, it is
shows that self-perceived communication competencies may a strong influence on individual
students’ willingness to communicate the degree to which an individual is inclined to initiate
communication with different students in various social setting. Moreover, competences of
communication may be more associated with both willingness to communicate and volitional
communication behavior that is actual communication skill.
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The purpose of this study is to know the competencies of communication skills towards
academic output among selected grade 4 pupils at Estampar Elementary School. Communication
skills enable individuals to understand other and to be understand themselves. Variety aspects
are important in the context of three skills, such as listening, speaking, observing and empathy
communication skills enable individual to understand others and to be understood themselves.
Competences of communication skills has become a focus in higher education over the past
couple of decades as educational policymakers and advocates have stressed a “back to basics”
Mentality (MC Croskey, 1984) The ability to communicate effectively is often included as a
primary undergraduate learning goal along with other key skills like Writing, Critical Thinking,
and problem Solving. You likely haven’t heard professors or university administrators use the
term communication competence, but as we learn more about it in this section. I am sure you will
see how communication competence can benefit you many aspects in your life. Since this
Purpose of the Study focuses on communication in the real world, strategies for developing
competencies of communication are not only to the section.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT
sheet
Acknowledgement
Dedication
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
Theoretical framework
Conceptual framework
Assumptions
Definitions of terms
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Foreign literature
Foreign studies
Frequency distribution
Data analysis
Conclusion
Recommendation
Bibliography
DEFINITION OF TERMS
For the purpose of clarification, the important terms used in the study have been defined.
Multigrade – “Combine students of the different ages and abilities in one classroom, under the
direction of one teacher”. In this study it refers to the respondents.
Parents – according to (Meriam Webster) a person who brings up and cares for another. Refers
to the mother and father or guardian of the students from Estampar Elementary School.
School – an institution for educating Children. From (Dictionary) in this paper it refers
Estampar Elementary School.
Behavior – conduct, department, comportment refer to one’s action before or toward others,
especially on a particular occasion.
Respondents – can be any age but determined by the scope of the study, and must agree to
informed consent to participate.
Learner – underscores and reinforces the goal of the education. Student relationship learning
rather than the respective roles played by student.
Academic – related to school. Your parents might want to spend less time laying video games
and more time focusing on academic pursuits.
Hypothesis – is an assumption, an idea that is proposed for the sake of argument so that it can
be tested to see if it might be true.
Study – the act of learning and spending time discovering information or an academic work
or investigation about a particular thing or subject area.
Skill – the learned ability to perform an action with determined results with good execution often
within a given amount of time, energy or both.
Adapt to various contents – social variables such as status and power affect competence.
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Communication Science began in earnest when students of Wilbur Schramm, the founder
of the institute for communication research at the university of Illinois namely David Berlo.
Came to Michigan state university and founded the first general communication arts department
in the early 1950s. though there are other communication science department elsewhere,
Michigan State was the first department in the United State that was dedicated solely to the study
of Communication. (www.otreebasics.com/historyofcommunicationstudies)
International
In the United State undergraduate curricula aim to prepare students to interrogate the
nature of communication in society, and the development of communication as a specific field.
The national Communication association (NCA) recognizes nine districts but often
overlapping sub-disciplines within the broader communication discipline.
(www.o.freebasic.com/historyofcommunication)
Local
FOREIGN LITERATURE
“The factors affecting the level of communication skills towards academic output,”
discussed that competencies of communication skills are a powerful tool that is revolutionizing
children’s learning, communication and play. If properly used, the communication skills can
serve as a medium for acceptable social interaction. The communication skills allow student to
socialize with other children through the increasing the development of communication and
social skills.
This literature is closely related to the current study for it directly mentions the role of
communication (and social skills). Specially to enhance the individual’s communication and
social skills. The present study like the article reviewed aims to establish a connection used by
the students and their impact of their communication skills.
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FOREIGN STUDIES
Thit thongkam (2011) Conducted a study about the factors affecting the level of
communication skills towards Academic output among selected grade 4 pupils at Estampar
Elementary School. The research results indicated that the factors affecting the level of
communication skill supported improving students writing skills, and assisted 99 percent of the
samples to pass the course based on the University criteria. Based on the information from
student behavior observation, it indicated that students have better motivation in studying
English, and always performed writing skills. The learning effectiveness is significant at the level
of .50. Satisfaction with studying English after using communicative exercise was positive. The
student satisfaction with learning English after using the competencies of communication skills
was at the level of strong satisfaction (Mean=4.329) or 86.38 percent.
This is Similar to the present study because it both discussed the benefits that the students
get from using the communication in their studies. It showed the improvement on the
communication skills of the students. After performing different exercises on the
communication.
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B. Gender
Table 1B states of the profile of the pupils in Estampar Elementary School on
gender. The table includes the gender, tally, frequency and percentage. As stated in
the table, out of fifty respondents to the study. Twenty-two or 44 percent are male and
twenty-eight or 56 percent are female. It can be stated that majority of the pupils in
Estampar Elementary School are female.
Vocational/ I 1 2%
Technical
College III 3 6%
Undergraduate
College Graduate IIII 4 8%
Total: 50 50 100%
Table 1C.
C. Parents Educational Attainment
Table 1C divulges of the profile in Estampar Elementary School on Parents
Educational Attainment. The table includes Parents Educational Attainment tally,
frequency and percentage. As stated in the table, out of the fifty respondents to the
study six or twelve percent Elementary Undergraduate (EU), nine or 18 percent
Secondary Undergraduate (SU), eight or 16 percent Elementary Graduate (EG),
nineteen or 38 percent Secondary Graduate (SG), one or 2 percent Vocational/
Technical, three or 6 percent College Undergraduate (CU), and four or 8 percent
College Graduate (CG).
This means that majority of the pupils in Estampar Elementary School are
Secondary Graduate (EG) and Secondary Undergraduate (SU).
Total: 50 50 100%
Table 1D.
D. Monthly Income
Table 1D divulges of the profile in Estampar Elementary School on Monthly
Income. The table include Monthly income, tally, frequency and percentage. As
stated in the table out of fifty respondents to the study thirteen or 26 percent 2000 and
below, fourteen or 28% percent 4000-6000, five or 10
percent 2000-4000, nine 18 percent 6000-8000, five or 10 percent 8000-10000, and
four or 8 percent 10000 above.
The majority of the pupil’s parent monthly income in Estampar Elementary
School are 4000-6000 and the lowest are 10000 above.
This table shows the percentage of rating of the pupils in selected grade 4 pupils.
The highest got above 40% and the lowest got 14% and the rest are on the middle.
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3. What are the greatest challenges encountered by the grade 4 pupils at Estampar
Elementary School in term of good communication?
The highest are one hundred forty-eight, EWX 2.96 WN and agree, 4 agree
descriptive rating. The lowest is the one hundred forty EWX, 2.5 neutral descriptive
rating.
4. What are the factors affecting the level of communication skills towards the
academic output of selected grade 4 pupils and to what extent?
Level of factors affecting VE E LE NE EMX N EM Descriptive
Communication skills 4 3 2 1 Rating
1. Pupils learning 16 30 10 150 50 3 Extent
skills
2. Personality and 4 20 18 112 50 224 Less Extent
self-perceived
3. Poor influence 8 28 14 8 151 50 302 Extend
4. Topics of 9 30 11 148 50 296 Extent
discussion
5. Learning 5 28 17 138 50 276 Extent
infrastructure
among others
6. Others (please
specific)
Table 4.
In the table, out of fifty respondents to the study, one hundred fifty or 3WM and
Extent, one hundred twelve or 2.24 WM and Less Extent one hundred fifty-
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one or 3.02 Extent, one hundred forty-eight, or 2,96 Extent, and last one hundred thirty-
eight or 2.76 Extent.
The highest are one hundred twenty-seven EWX, 2.54 Less Likely Descriptive
Rating. The lowest is one hundred twenty or 2.40 Likely Descriptive Rating.
Total Ranking
81 1st
93 4th
109 7th
105 6th
103 5th
92 3rd
89 2nd
Table 6.
This table shows the total and ranking of the suggestions. In selected grade 4
teachers. The highest got above 81 and the lowest got 109 and the rest are on the middle.
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CONCLUSION
Through our research we have come up to a conclusion among the six questions
that we have stated on our questionnaires six out of it truly affect the factors affecting the
level of communication skills of the pupils and that is Profile of the pupil, Rating of the
pupils, Level of factor affecting communication skills and Pupils having difficulty in
communication. By paying attention and action to resolve these problems we conclude
that difficulties on communication will be resolve.
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RECOMMENDATION
In general, the researchers were confident that the problems were corresponding
answered the accuracy and reliability it can utmost achieve, however, there are skill
aspects in the research study that will improve the research and yield more accurate and
strong data and conclusions. The researchers have the following recommendations.
1. It will be helpful to the educators or researchers if there are more reasons are
served to the respondents. This will expose more areas of concern and even
reveal more interesting corrections.
2. Learn to say “Highest tally, percent, and frequency” Be aware and
choose the right friend with a good character that might you as a pupil.
3. To the respondents, continue your schooling whatever the consequences you
may encounter because there’s a lot of opportunities that you may face in life.
Never stop learning because education is the only thing for everyone’s
success.
4. A better and well-organized questionnaire will be needed to derive more
accurate answers and responses from the respondent.
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REFERENCES
www.otreebasics.com/historyofcommunicationstudies https://difficultiesincommunicationskills
https://thefactorsofaffectingthelevelofcommunication
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