HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE

HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY

STI,DENTS' GRAMMATICAL COMPETf,NCIES: BASIS FOR AN INSTRUCTIONAL MODT'LE IN EFTECTIVE WRITING

A Thesis Presentedto The Faculty of Graduate

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Holy Angel

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Master of Arts in ^Fnglish I^mguage and Litenature Trehing

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STUDENTS' GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCIES

HOLY ANGEL UNIVNRSITY

STUDENTS' GRAMMATICAL COMPETANCIES: BASIS FIOR Ani INSTRUCTIONAL MODIJLE IN EFFtrCTIYE WRITING

Abstrrct

This study assessed the grammatical cmpetenciw and deterrrined the relationship of the granmatical competencies in uniting and

pmfile of

Thrlac State University College

of

Education First Year strdents

l\.Y.

2014-2015.

A

^40-it€m

grmmar test

vuas used

to

determirc

trs ^gnmatical

competencies

of 243

participants

from tlrc

Bachelor in Elerrentary Educdion (BEED) and Bachelor

in

Secondary

&lucation (BSED) departments

of the

said college- The

grammar

tsst coversd twelve

areias

of

competencies, namely: AdjoctiveSAdrcrbs, Capitaliz*ion, Coordination, Denotation

ad Cmnmtioq

Fragmed, Logrc"l Comparisons,

Modifiersl Parallelisn,

Pronorm, Verbs, Spelling,

md

Worrdiness- The

shd]'

shoured tbat

of

atl tre twelve aeas

in

^grammatid competetrieq th€ BEED

ild

BSED depwtment consisten*y

hd

repesentativm nfro failod

mddidndgrtffiyscor€in&€ trr&&ItalsoM

that the BSED participants performd better than the BEED participants.

ft

was revmled tlrat the puticipane' age and

gdm

did not have

signifiem,

brr

fu

^was a significflrt

rel*ionstrip betq/ffii fu

course

d tre grmndical

co@ies

Even so, &e _Fost

k

^te$ r€slts *ourud

trd lb

soones of the BSED English major participants were different from the scores

of tfie mrEnglish

m4iors

of fre

^BSED

WitbaL

tfu

darta

unveild that

there rnras a significant differcnce on tlrc soores of

fk

^BEED

d

^BSED

participuts-

A

module rryas

fun

cr€afied

to entrc

^&ae

strengths and CI aid in

tre

wmknesses of the participants in grdnmar-

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