Reading Proficiency, Comprehension Level of Grade 8 Students and Readability of Afro Asian Learning Module
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https://doi.org/10.51699/ajdes.v1i.26Keywords:
reading, proficiency, comprehension, literary, ReadabilityAbstract
This study is conducted to identify the reading proficiency and comprehension level of the Grade 8 students on the different literary texts such as short story, drama and poetry, and the readability of Afro-Asian module. There are 566 respondents randomly selected from the City Schools of Quezon City. The instruments used are MAZE test which consists of a 25-item reading test to assess the reading proficiency and Mc Call Crabb test which consists of a 54- item comprehension test on different literary texts which identifies the comprehension level of the respondents. The Fry Readability Graph is also used to validate the reading level of the Afro-Asian module. From the results of the data gathered, the researcher arrives at the conclusion that most of the respondents are identified frustrational readers based on the MAZE reading test and Mc Call Crabb test on varied literary texts. Using the Fry Readability Graph, Afro-Asian short story and drama texts are in the higher level and the poetry texts are lower than the expected readers. Descriptive-correlation method is used in the study describing the reading proficiency and comprehension level on different literary texts such as short story, poetry and drama of the respondents. The results reveal that reading proficiency and comprehension of the students need to be enhanced in schools to minimize the number of frustrational readers, and the Afro-Asian module should be revised to match the readability of the intended readers.
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