Effects of Contextualization on the Reading Comprehension Performance of Filipino Learners
Contextualizing reading comprehensionA instruction places the learners in a vividA and meaningful authentic situation.A Contextualization can be done throughA designing the reading lessons and activitiesA that center on the learnersaEUR(tm) field ofA interests and environment. The presentA study attempts to determine the effectsA of Contextualized Teaching and LearningA on reading comprehension performanceA of the learners. There were thirty threeA (33) Bachelor of Science in InformationA Technology learners who participated in thisA quasi experimental study. A researcher madeA reading comprehension test was used toA measure the learnersaEUR(tm) reading comprehensionA performance. Results revealed that theA reading comprehension performance of theA learners during pretest is within the average A (M=9.12, SD=2.56) and the posttest result isA above average rating (M=12.91, SD=2.38).A Furthermore, there was a significant increase of the reading comprehension performanceA of the students from pretest to posttest.A Hence, contextualizing the reading tasksA of the learners has positive effects on theirA comprehension performance. ContextualizedA teaching and learning is recommended inA helping learners improve their performanceA in reading.