"The New Trends of Communication Arts through Reflective Journals of Senior High School Students"

Reynaldo V. Moral,

PhD Department of Education, Division of Cebu City, Philippines Don Sergio Osmena Sr. Memorial National High School

Elizabeth L. Etac

Master Teacher Department of Education, Division of Cebu City, Philippines Don Sergio Osmena Sr. Memorial National High School

Jean B. Pieper

Master Teacher Department of Education, Division of Cebu City, Philippines Don Sergio Osmena Sr. Memorial National High School

Keywords: new trends, skills, communication, journals, self-regulated learning.


Abstract

In the current situation of the students of Don Sergio Osmeňa Sr. Memorial National High School, no one has ever tried to explore the students' skills in the field of communication arts using the scientific method of data collection. This has led to blended learning which has become the weakness of senior high school students in developing writings appropriate to the current Most Essential Learning Competencies. The researchers aimed to explore the new trend of the respondents to develop their proficiency in the Filipino language from their reflective journals. Using descriptive inferential statistics design and stratified sampling among 511 students. The study revealed that more percentage of the respondents enrolled regularly (78.86%), General Academic Strand (55.57%) also had the highest percentage of performance in Accomplished Level with the numbers 212 and 148. According to the Chi-Square Test of Independent Sample, their reflective journal has a significant relationship (X2=32.1444 & p-value is .0000188 p<.05) between students' performance and enrollment due to the rejection of Ho1. However, there is no significant relationship (X25.9639 p-value is .11338 p<.05). between their performance level and the type of strand/track they have chosen, which is the reason for receiving Ho2. This indicates that more students from the general education curriculum possess proficiency in the field of journal writing in response to the theory of Self-Regulated Learning. The current study suggests that there should be an application of teaching at the Junior High School level and a thorough decision of parallel studies to further cultivate the new trend K to12 curriculum in the subject of Filipino.

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