Bicol University

Graduate School
Legazpi City

“Peer Tutoring for

CLARISA MAE G. BALANE

Submitted to:

REBECCA ROSARIO O. BERCASIO

Reading is a demanded skill that must be mastered by students. With reading, students
may gain important information needed. In fact, learners nowadays are very unsatisfactory when
it comes to reading comprehension. It simply shows how the educational world is in need of
strategic reading technique. This is because students are reluctant to read for the reason that texts
are difficult to understand.

This condition leads the teachers to apply some teaching technique in reading. One of
them is peer tutoring. It is a collaborative learning strategy in teaching reading. In this reading
practice, students play the roles of a tutor and a tutee. This technique helps students to focus on
important details. Students review and reformulate knowledge about the text through generating
questions and answering it. By the said means, it caters students’ chances to enhance their
understanding toward the text. Students gain better understanding of the materials by learning
from each other.

It is critical that readers relate their world knowledge to the content of a text in order to
make sense of what they are reading. Students who are not good enough in reading
comprehension find difficulty in explaining the content of the text. It may be caused by one of
the factors wherein the teacher does not use any strategy in reading, but just kept on giving her
students worksheets to be accomplished which may contain series of questions for
comprehension.
 DURATION
The “Peer Tutoring for Reading Comprehension” is conducted during ICL
(Individual Collaborative Learning) every week for 30-45 minutes of the English subject. If
happened every Wednesday for Grade 9, Thursday for Grade 10, and Friday for Grade 12.

PROPONENTS
The proponent of the said Reading intervention is Mrs. Geneve B. Ballaran of Bical
National High School who’s teaching English 9, English 10, and Grade 12 students.
 PROCEDURE

The proponent introduced Peer tutoring as a reading practice that develops their
skills in reading comprehension wherein they will play the role of a tutor and a tutee.

Before holding peer tutoring, the struggling learners are identified through series of
reading tests. One of which is the Phil IRI. The class will be divided into how many
struggling readers are identified. For each and every week, they will be grouped to different
individuals.

Teacher distributes the text. She then will explain to the students how to find main
ideas, find details, draw inferences, and predict the word meaning from context. She also
explains some types of questions which were categorized into main ideas questions, details
questions, inferences questions, and word meaning questions.

She provides students a model how to conduct training sessions with the tutoring
materials prepared by her. This was the moment for guided session for the students. She
seeks students’ attention when she gave a model to train them how to be a good tutor and a
good tutee. As she finished giving a model, she will assign students to make some types of
questions taught before, along with their answers. While they were making questions, she
will walk around the classroom to help the students if they got stuck on making questions.
The teacher will instruct them to practice tutoring sessions after they finish making the
questions. She will also ask them to give feedback from each other. The teacher also asks
what they felt and what their difficulties are during the activities.

To monitor the progress of the students, the teacher has a monitoring form/checklist.
The recorded monitoring is done every month to recognize how the reader develops the
skills.
 IMPACT AND INSIGHTS

Reading is indeed a basic skill in English. Therefore, mastery must be observed. This is
for the reason that without reading, you will not totally get the information you are in in need of.
Comprehension must be addressed to understand the content of the text.

As a reading teacher, I can say that it a promising reading strategy because the way I
remembered the random talks I had with her, she said that the students are becoming active. By
this means, students are engaged in active learning. When using peer tutoring, the students are
working cooperatively and following the procedure, actively asking each other questions,
responding, correcting mistakes, and providing feedback. Active learning has been shown to be
more effective in promoting student achievement as opposed to simply watching and listening to
the teacher.

On the other way around, hearing the side of the students on informal talks, I felt glad
upon knowing their response. Peer tutoring reduce teacher dominancy. Peer tutoring helps create
student-centered classroom. It can help students move away from dependence on teacher toward
belief in their own ability to create knowledge. Teacher becomes a co-learner and facilitator,
acting as a guide and a coach. The teacher talks with students and offers opinions, explores
strategies, and helps.

Both learners and teachers will find that peer tutoring changes their roles as well as the
learning environment. When peer tutoring is used, the instructional environment usually becomes
more learner-directed, and the learners have a more significant role in helping shape the learning.

I can say that hrough peer tutoring, students are able to develop their reading skills,
namely finding main idea, finding details, drawing inferences, and predicting word meanings
since during this process, the students generate and answer questions about main idea, details,
inferences, and word meaning. More frequent they make and answer the questions, more
frequent they learn them.

In peer tutoring, the students are motivated to raise questions before or during or after
tutorial sessions, be cooperative and take active part in all tutorial activities, solve problems
together, be punctual and attend all tutorial sessions. Their confidences also improve when they
are asked to teach or tutor one another.

It is clear that the use of peer tutoring help students to focus on what is important. By
generating questions and answering them, the students review and reformulate their knowledge
about the text so that it provides students more chance to enhance their understanding toward the
text. The students gain a better understanding of the materials by learning from each other.
EVIDENCES