Writing Chapter 1: The Problem and Its Background Introduction This provides general information about the topic chosen, its role or importance in society; it also discusses the reason why the researcher became interested in the study. For example, if the study is about English language learning, a discussion on the importance of English education in the Philippines today will be an appropriate introduction. Sample Introduction (Title: “Blended Learning at Centro Escolar University” by Opina, et.al) CHAPTER 1 The Problem and Its Background Introduction Internet has become impossible to ignore and even people who do not own a computer have seen or heard about its uses. Education becomes accessible even outside the formal schools. Anyone can acquire information, knowledge with the use of virtual technology anytime even at wee hours. As Paul West (2010) puts it, the Internet is being attributed with the power to mesmerize and seduce the youth as was the television and film industries at an earlier time. Blended or hybrid learning combines online with face-to-face learning formats. It is gaining acceptance as a supplement to the traditional classroom setting. However, since it is a relatively new means of getting knowledge, research on its effectiveness is still in its infancy. This means that questions that have been thoroughly studied for traditional classrooms may need to be revisited for Blended instruction. In the Philippines, most computers are placed in computer laboratories where students are sent for self-paced tutorials. But Barrett (2008) believes that this is not education and that technology "should support the complex private and social activities that make up the learning process"(201). Some schools now have created a fully distributed computing environment to support the learners though the provision of electronic mail, access to software, personal file storage and other communications utilities. In this way computers are used to aid students in the learning process. With this in mind, the researchers decided to create online quizzes, and games to supplement the lessons in Communication Skills 1 so they could come up with insights applicable to the students of CEU Manila, Makati and Malolos campuses.
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Writing Chapter 1: The Problem and Its Background
Introduction
This provides general information about the topic chosen, its role or importance in society; it also
discusses the reason why the researcher became interested in the study. For example, if the study is about
English language learning, a discussion on the importance of English education in the Philippines today will be
an appropriate introduction.
Sample Introduction (Title: “Blended Learning at Centro Escolar University” by Opina, et.al)
CHAPTER 1
The Problem and Its Background
Introduction
Internet has become impossible to ignore and even people who do not own a computer have seen or
heard about its uses. Education becomes accessible even outside the formal schools. Anyone can acquire
information, knowledge with the use of virtual technology anytime even at wee hours. As Paul West (2010)
puts it, the Internet is being attributed with the power to mesmerize and seduce the youth as was the
television and film industries at an earlier time.
Blended or hybrid learning combines online with face-to-face learning formats. It is gaining
acceptance as a supplement to the traditional classroom setting. However, since it is a relatively new means
of getting knowledge, research on its effectiveness is still in its infancy. This means that questions that have
been thoroughly studied for traditional classrooms may need to be revisited for Blended instruction.
In the Philippines, most computers are placed in computer laboratories where students are sent for
self-paced tutorials. But Barrett (2008) believes that this is not education and that technology "should
support the complex private and social activities that make up the learning process"(201). Some schools
now have created a fully distributed computing environment to support the learners though the provision of
electronic mail, access to software, personal file storage and other communications utilities. In this way
computers are used to aid students in the learning process.
With this in mind, the researchers decided to create online quizzes, and games to supplement the
lessons in Communication Skills 1 so they could come up with insights applicable to the students of CEU
Manila, Makati and Malolos campuses.
Background of the Study
In undergraduate research, this is sometimes incorporated in the introduction of the study. It provides the
history of the topic, subjects of the study, and other strategies compared or tested, chemical substance analyzed,
etc.
Sample Background of the Study: (from “Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) and Teaching Performance of
Education and Non-Education Graduates in the Philippines” by Dr. Brenda B. Corpuz and Dr. Nenita V. Quinon.
Setting of the Study
It specially gives information regarding the location of the study, for example, the history of the private
university where the students are enrolled in, the town or city where the respondents live, etc. It is usually
accompanied by a map of the pertinent place/s.
Sample Setting of the Study (taken from “The Relationship of The Online English Teachers’ Competencies to Selected
Variables: Implications to Online English Teaching” by Ivan Perry Mercado.
Background of the Study
In accordance with R.A. 7836, the licensure Examination for Teachers is open to
BS graduates who comply with the eighteen-unit professional education subjects.
Through the years, it has been observed that most of the top performers in the LET come
from the group on non-education graduates. In the field, however, a common comment
from the school heads is that the non-education graduates are good in content but not so
good in teaching methods and techniques. In contrast, it is said that most education
graduates are said to be inadequate in content but good on teaching methods and
techniques.
Today, the question on whether to increase the eighteen-unit Professional
Education subjects, the minimum number of units required of non-education graduates
for the LET, as provided for in R.A. 9293 is raised by education stakeholders.
Setting of the Study
This study will be conducted in Metro Manila, Philippines (Figure 1). The
Philippines is a tropical country consisting of 7,107 islands between 4.23N and 21.25N
and between 116E and 127E longitude. Figure 2 shows the islands that are geographically
divided into three main areas, namely Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Only 2,000
islands of the archipelago are inhabited.
There are 111 linguistic, cultural and racial groups, of which over 36 are more
ethnic groups scattered throughout the archipelago. The relative isolation provided by the
islands has made ethnic regionalism evident to this day. The national language is Tagalog,
although another 70 languages and dialects of Malayo-Polynesian origin are also currently
spoken.
The Philippines is using a bilingual medium of instruction. Certain subjects are
taught in English and the rest in the national language that is Filipino. Throughout the
islands, English is widely spoken as a second language. The Philippines is predominantly
Roman Catholic country (82%) and is the only Christian nation in Asia.
Meanwhile, the five selected online English education companies in the Metro
Manila for this study are the following:
1. Neungyule Eduphone in Libis, Quezon City. It is both a publishing and an
English Institution having specialized in English Education for a long time. The company
is committed in providing enhancement on strong communication skills of practical and
conversational English.
(Note: There are four more…)
Figure 1
Map of Metro Manila
Figure 2
Map of the Philippines
Theoretical Framework
It presents the theoretical basis of the study, which may be an established learning principle or theory. A
study on children’s learning acquisition may include Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory; a research on
teaching methodologies may use Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, etc. An inclusion of an illustration
of the theory in the study is suggested to clearly show how the theory serves as the framework of the study.
Sample of Theoretical Framework
Figure 3
David Amerland’s Cloud –Based Environment
In figure 3, David Amerland (2012) uses the cloud-based environment to
engage and share information with clients. The move to the Cloud, the
entertainment services, serving eBooks, music and movies makes everything
automatically available to those who access it.
Everybody is talking about the internet simply because of its enormous tools
that were not even conceivable in earlier technologies. The marvelous feature of the
internet is that nobody really controls it; nobody really owns it; and nobody can at a
click turn the internet off. Its broad base is the scattered millions of individual
computers connected to one another.
Cognizant to the significant role of internet in many fields, particularly in
education, the researchers believe that internet can make million things possible for