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Use of Cornics-Based Grammar Instruction in

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Learners' Grammatical Competence

HOLY AI\GEL TINIVERSITY

USE

OF COMICS.BASED GRAMMAR INSTRUCTION IN IMPROVING THE GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE OF GRADE

9

STUDENTS

Holy Angel University

Angeles

City

In Partial Fulfillment

of

theRequirements for

the Degree

Master

of

Arts inEnglish

Language and

Literature

Teaching

JONEL A. VEI"ASQABZ

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27

February

2016

Use of Comics-Based Grammar Instruction in Improving Learners' Grammatical Competence

HOLY ANGEL T]NTVERSITY

USE

OF CONIICS.BASED GRAMMAR INSTRUCTION IN IMPROVING THE GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE OF GRAI}E

9

STUDENTS

JONEL A. VELASQUEZ Abstract

Without

grammar, language

will be diffrcult to

understand and learners

will fail to utilize

language properly. Researcher aimed at

reinforcing the

importance

of

studying grammar and determining

the noteworthiness of the use of comics-based

grammar

instruction, a new approach, in ^improving the

grammatical competence

of

80 Grade 9

Filipino

students

of

FGNMHS, Angeles

City. Participants weretwo

heterogeneous

classes identified through random

sampling and assigned as experimental groupto take comics-based grammar instruction and

control

group

to

take

the school's

current grarnmar instruction.

A

grammar assessment

tool

was designed to describe their grammatical competence levels

before and after taking the four-week long

^grammar

instructionswith lessons presented visually/digitally.Descriptive

statistics,

parametric inferential

t-tests,

and

scales

were

used to

analyze collected data. Results showed a significant

^positive

difference vith strong effect size in the

post-test scores

of

the experimental group over the control group.Findings were basis

for

a proposed grammar program.

Keyw ords

:

^gramlnar, grammatical competence, comics-based grammar instruction, comicsor graphic novels, SLA, and K-12

Grammar is one of the most

diflicult

lessons to master for many language leamers as far as their academic performance is concerned. Even natives of a particular language may find

it

hard to study the

nitty-gritty

of their own grammar as whatother language experts

assert.

It

may be absurd to note that even some professionals do commit candid grammar mistakes to some extent. And worse, many individuals do not even care whether their use

of

the language is grammatical or not, especially nowadays when the Generation

Z

(the

first

generation to be born

with

complete technology) has exponentially grown.

It

is comrnon

for

many of today's sfudents to have meager to very poor gralnmar skills due to a number

of