A Proposed Instructional Materials on English Phonology for Grade Six
Keywords:
Instructional Materials, English, PhonologyAbstract
It was the intention of this study to construct and validate instructional materials that would develop the phonological skills of grade VI pupils in English. The study employed the descriptive-developmental method of research using the Phonology Test in English and survey questionnaire as the main instruments to determine the phonological difficulties of the grade Vi pupils in the District of Daram I. The teachers’ responses pertaining to the validity of the instructional materials were as follows: 4.20 for the content validity, and construct validity and 4.30 for the face validity. All these means belong to the “agree” range. Moreover, the experts’ responses along the materials’ validity were; 3.52 for the content validity, 4.12 for the construct validity and 4.04 for the face validity. Likewise all these mean ``agree”. For the conclusion, the diagnosed difficulties of the Grade VI pupils as revealed by the phonology test were conquered by the perceived difficulties given by the teachers and experts. These results indicated the necessity to develop instructional materials based on the weaknesses in order to overcome, or at least minimize them. Teachers’ assessment showed that the degree of difficulty of the pupil-respondents was greater than the assessments as given by the experts. This was supported by the rejection of the corresponding hypothesis. For the recommendation, the developed instructional materials should be used by the language teachers as supplementary instructional materials to address the identified weaknesses of the pupil-respondents.
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