Shades of Meaning (SAME): Using Flipchart to Develop Skills in Expanding Word Clines among 2nd Graders
- Author Rosalyn Ballado
- DOI http://wwj
- Country : Philippines
- Subject : Education
Keywords : word cline, flip chart, vocabulary building, English language
Abstract
Vocabulary learning is required to gain a good command of English as a second language. But acquiring enough variety of words has been a challenge to Filipino learners such as those in the provinces where reading materials complementary to the printed modules under the distance learning modality are scarce. Hence, I developed Shades of Meaning (SAME), a flipchart of word clines. To establish the effectiveness of this intervention in enhancing the pupils’ skills in expanding word cline, this practical and reactive action research employed a mixed methods concurrent embedded research design. The purposively sampled 28 2nd graders from Napotiocan Elementary School, Laoang IV District underwent instruction on word cline using illustrated flip charts. To gather quantitative and qualitative data, pretest and posttest along with the semi-structured interview sessions were conducted. Descriptive statistics, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, effect size, and thematic analysis were utilized to analyze the collected data. Results revealed a large significant increment in the pupils’ score from the pretest to the posttest which means that using the flipchart made the difference in understanding words with differing degrees of meaning. To corroborate these quantitative results, the learners’ accounts of their experiences indicated that SAME flip chart augmented their interest in the lesson, thus, enhanced their skill in expanding word cline.
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