Nena Trinidad Garcia: A case study

• Main Author: Corpus, Mary Cyril
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1966
• Subjects: Teenage girls—Counseling of; Reading comprehension; Science—Study and teaching; English language—Phonemics; Iloko language—Phonemics; Counseling; Student Counseling and Personnel Services
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/6289; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/12966/viewcontent/Nena_Trinidad_Garcia__A_case_study.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Nena Trinidad Garcia's case is not the only one of its kind. True, there are individual differences, and what is true with one, may not be so with another. This study typically represents the many cases that a teacher of city teenage girls encounters in her classes every day in these times of marital infidelity, broken homes, and materialism. Nena's case proves the psychological dictum that every successful teacher knows: Every misbehavior is caused.With this study, it is hoped that the guidance worker may be able to help Nena, besides seeing her way clearer toward a better understanding of, and more effective help to girls of nena's kind. For a correlation study, this was undertaken to find out to what extent reading ability is related to science grades. Using the scores of 156 sophomore students, and their corresponding final marks in science for the year 1965-1966, the correlation was found to be positive and significant at the .01 and .05 levels of confidence, although it is neither high nor substantial. However, it increases predictive efficiency to 5 per cent at better than 50-50 chance. This means that scores on the California Reading test are not very good predictors for future performance beyond the general statement: total reading ability grade placement scores on the California Teast which are average or above average generally indicate average or above average grades in science, and below average total reading grade placement scores tend to indicate below average marks in science at better than 50-50 chance. On contrastive analysis of English and Ilocano segmental phonemes and rhythm for better oral English, the paper primarily deals with two of the three essential elements of pronunciation: segmental phonemes and rhythm. The third element, intonation, has been purposely left out principally because the varieties of Ilocano intonation patterns are as numerous as the number of localities, and to descrive these patterns alone demands an extensive and intensive preparation and study: secondly, the analysis of intonation requires a more special training. Ilocano being the third major dialect and spoken by a great portion of the total population scattered in several parts of the country, has been selected from among the eighty dialects of the Philippines. Aside fom this, the analysis of one's own native tongue is more reliable, more rewarding, and more interesting, yet less taxing than that of another with which one is not so familiar.