VIEWING TEACHING TECHNIQUES IN ENHANCING VIEWING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN LITERATURE

Year 2017, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 271 - 279, 30.06.2017

Maria Diana S. Guıeb Ruth A. Ortega-dela Cruz

Abstract

In today’s generation of digital natives, students find it unexciting to sit down and read literary texts in its entirety. Thus, students nowadays hardly understand and appreciate literature as a subject. This calls for additional challenge to teachers who had been used to deliver their lessons or any subject matter in traditional ways. This study used descriptive-correlational research design to unveil the most effective viewing teaching techniques that will help develop the viewing comprehension skills of literature students in a tertiary level. Findings reveal how literature students perceive the use of movies or videos as a powerful viewing teaching technique. Result of chi-square test of independence indicates the viewing teaching techniques are not significantly related to students’ viewing comprehension. This suggests that no single teaching technique suits the learners’ interest and ability to learn. Therefore, teachers can make use of technology combined with other viewing techniques to ensure that students will find a love for literature that will help establish their academic success in the future.

Keywords

College students, comprehension skills, literature, viewing teaching techniques, Philippines

VIEWING TEACHING TECHNIQUES IN ENHANCING VIEWING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN LITERATURE

Abstract

Keywords

College students, comprehension skills, literature, viewing teaching techniques, Philippines

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