Dears for My Dear Students’ Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The research aimed to determine the effect of DEARS on the reading comprehension of Grade 11 Turmeric students in Tacloban National Agricultural School. The target population was given a reading comprehension pretest to identify the study's sample respondents. Out of 30 students, 28 belonged to the Frustration level. They served as samples of the study and went through the intervention. The pretest mean is 6.1786 and 19.7500 in the posttest, which marked a significant difference between the scores. The students' reflections revealed that the impact of an intervention on students proved to develop their interest in reading, boost self-confidence, and gain lessons in life. The implementation of DEARS is effective since it increases students' reading levels at a .0 level of significance. However, few of the students fell in frustration level in the posttest. Therefore, with the remaining students under the frustration level after the intervention, an extended program period must be considered to elevate them to an independent level. Since DEARS is significantly effective in Grade 11 Turmeric students, full implementation of the program must be given to all Grade 11 students and revalidation to Grade 7 as the door to secondary education. This program is recommended to fellow English teachers as an effective intervention to improve learners' reading comprehension skills.