Linguistics Variables Germane to the Proficiency of Intermediate Pupils in Mathematics: An Input for Primer Conceptualization

Abstract

There have been researches which delineated the high correlations between Mathematics achievement and reading ability. The ability to read Mathematics in a second language has been obviously influenced by a variety of language skills. This academic pursuit delved on the linguistics factors germane to the proficiency of intermediate pupils. A primer was developed by the researcher with great considerations on the results of the study. Findings reveal that intermediate pupils have fair proficiency level due to the identified linguistics factors (dependent variables) such as complexity of words, vocabulary level, verbal cues, linguistics distractors and linguistics schema deemed as the chief contributory variables. Moreover, sentence order, connecting words, semantic relations, and lexical terms are supplementary dependent variables (DV) attributed to the fair proficiency of the intermediate pupils in Marinas Elementary School which a frequency of five (5 or approximately 83% of the teacher respondents and ranked the second among the identified linguistics variables. The researcher recommends the ff.: (1) Reproduction of the conceptualized primer in Mathematics be done to partially solve the issues on instructional material scarcity. (2) Submission of the copyrighted instructional material be furnished the Library Hub of the City Division of Sorsogon for future reference; and (3) Trainings on instructional material development be conducted not just in Mathematics but also to other subjects.

Keywords: Linguistics Variables, Germane, Proficiency Level, Intermediate Pupils, Conceptualization