Effectiveness of Reciprocal Teaching on the Reading Comprehension of Senior Weekend Secondary Students of Samson Technical Institute in Davao City

This study was undertaken primarily to test a teaching strategy called Reciprocal

Teaching (RT). RT is conducted through constant role modeling and follow-up, until

the students gradually assume the role of the teacher. In small groupings, the

students took turns in discussing a reading text. Using the strategies of questioning,

clarifying, speculating and summarizing, RT seeks to improve the reading skills of the

readers. The respondents of this study were the senior weekend high school students

of Samson Technical Institute in Davao City. The respondents were placed into two

groups by the school. The control group reported for class on Saturdays while the

experimental group attended class on Sundays. This research followed an

experimental design. The two groups took the same pretest. While the control group

had lessons on reading using modular approach, the experimental group had the same

lessons on reading using instead reciprocal teaching. At the end of the study, the two

groups were given the same posttest. The results showed that the experimental group

had increased their test results in the reading skills using RT. On the other hand, the

control group also improved their test results using modular approach. Based from

the data gathered, the study manifested that, although the test scores of respondents

under RT had improved in reading comprehension, the data still could not establish a

significant difference with the control group owing to the short duration of the

experiment. Further testing is recommended to come up with significant results.

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