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             their use of teaching styles along role playing, arts and crafts, acting out a story and field trips
             and teaching approach along permissive to make it very effective in their utilization to further
             enhance pupils performance. 4) other studies should be conducted to look into other aspects
             of the extent of utilization of teaching styles and approaches by the Kindergarten teachers in a
             wider scope.


                   PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS
                                  IN THE USE OF MOTHER TONGUE
                                         JOVELLE A. LAYOS


                    This study determined the problems encountered in the use of the Mother Tongue
             by the Kindergarten teachers of Pozorrubio District and Sison District, Pangasinan Division II.
             Specifically, it sought to determine the profile of the respondents in terms of age, sex, civil
             status,  highest  educational  attainment,  length  of  service  and  relevant  trainings.  Likewise,  it
             looked into the extent of the problems encountered by the teachers in the use of the mother
             tongue along teacher factor, student factor, instructional materials / facilities and stakeholders
             support, the significant difference in the extent of problems encountered by the teachers in the
             used of the mother tongue across the profile variables and the relationship between the extent
             of the problems encountered by the teachers in the use of the mother tongue and their profile
             variables. The descriptive method of research was employed and the questionnaire checklist was
             used in gathering the data. To address the problems in this study, the statistical measures were
             used for data analysis and interpretations. These are the frequency counts (f) and percentage
             (%) the average weighted means, the analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the Pearson product
             moment of coefficient correlation (r) were used.
                    Based on the analysis and interpretation of data, the following salient findings were
             drawn: 1) majority of the respondent teachers belong to age bracket 20 – 30 years old that is
             24 or 49 percent, female dominated, 46 – 93.9 percent, single 25 or 53.1 percent with MA units
             30 or 61.2 percent, have 1 – 5 years of experience in teaching kindergarten that is 27 or 55.1
             percent and attended 1 – 5 relevant trainings attended in the division level that is 28 or 57.1
             percent. 2) the extent of the problems encountered in the use of the mother tongue obtained
             an overall weighted mean of 3.19 denoting a moderately serious descriptive equivalent rating 3)
             there are no significant differences in the extent of the problems encountered by the teachers in
             the use of the mother tongue across the profile variables and 4) there is a significant relationship
             found in the extent of problems encountered by the teachers in the use of the mother tongue
             and the profile variable highest educational attainment.
                    In the light of the findings, the following conclusions were formulated 1) the respondent
             teachers widely vary in their profile variables and at certain instances their variations are in
             extreme  cases  and  are  distinctively  female  dominated  group.  2)  the  respondent  teachers
             encountered problems in the mother tongue which are moderately serious along teacher factor,


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