Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A Thesis Proposal
Presented to
The Faculty of the Graduate School
San Pablo Colleges
San Pablo City
By
2008
CHAPTER I
Introduction
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language)
the Philippine Nursing Licensure Examination are almost the same and
both given only in English. With the same objective of ensuring public
English had a passing rate between 67.7% and 95% students for whom
English was a second language had a passing rate between 33.3% and
47%. Johnston (2001) concluded that language skills influence the ability
and Figlear, 1998). In comparison between ESL and Non ESL students,
ESL students report more difficulty in the clinical courses than Non ESL
students. It has been suggested that this is due to the high level of
interactive communication skills that are needed (Jalili, Grenier & Chase,
1997).
terms translating doctors order and recording patient data, but more
since much of the information and many are passed on verbalize orders.
unless the students are proficient in English, they will face difficulties in
levels are being taught in English. In order to excel in their studies and
language.
reason that the researcher was challenged to undertake a study with the
they in all the English subjects that will eventually shows the relationship
licensure examination
Rafael.
A. Theoretical Framework
propositions that are derived from the text. After having read a complete
comprehension strategies
Vocabulary Verbal
Acquisition Representation
Verbal
Information
Short-Term Referential Connections
Memory
Non-verbal
Information Non-verbal
Representation
Micro Level
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B. Conceptual Framework
general point average of all English subjects in all levels namely: English
link between the profile and the General Point Average (GPA) of all
The second box is the process that shows the links which is the
Profile
National
Graduate Student Licensure
- Age Examination
- Sex
Figure 2
Research Paradigm of the Study
1.1 Age,
1.2 Sex
in terms of:
terms of:
3.1 Age
3.2 Sex
licensure examination?
5.1 Age
5.2 Sex
Hypothesis
CHAPTER 2
METHODOLOGY
Research Design
determine the relationship among the variables (Burns & Grove, 2003).
Due to the nature of the study, ex-post facto techniques will be use for
being satisfied.
examination.
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Respondents / Subject of the Study
the selection of graduate students with the following criteria: (1.) Must be
(2.) Must be 21 yrs old and above; (3.) Those who took the Nurse
BSN; and (5) Second courser. Or BSN is not the first course. No
sampling among the graduates will be done. All were subjects in the
study.
Research Instrument
two parts. The first part seeks information of the demographic profile of
the respondents in terms of age, and sex. The second part is in a form of
item centered only on all English subjects from level I to level IV. The
specific variables:
licensure examination.
the General English GPA, age, and sex to be taken from the evaluation
form of each students. List of board examinees will be taken from the
.
Statistical Treatment of Data
The data that will be gathered from the academic records will be
the lowest to the highest together with a count of the number of times
Formula :
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GPA, Mean and standard deviation, will be use to analyze the data in
age, sex and the general point average of general English subjects of the entire