Conceptual Framework of this study is based on Pre-test-Post-Test system approach which serves as the researcher’s guide while undergoing the study.The research paradigm of the study was divided into two stages: Stage 1 and Stage 2.The Stage 1 on the following page shows the population, the pre-test, the intervention and the post-test used.
The first box contains the population of the study, wherein 35 grade three students from Masagana Elementary School are the participants. The second box presents the pre-test that was administered to the grade three students of Masagana Elementary School. The pre-test went through face validation coming from three experts to make sure that it is suitable to the respondents of the study. It is composed of 40 questions that were classified into animals, values, color and food.
It used fill in the blanks, classification of words, matching type and identification as a type of questions. Thirdly, the intervention box shows the process in which the researchers conducted an observation and teaching strategies were used to teach nursery rhymes as springboard to improve the grade three students’ vocabulary. Ten sessions were used to teach the grade three students. Thus, there were ten nursery rhymes used in the study. The fourth box presents the post-test that was administered to the grade three students of Masagana Elementary School after the ten sessions of teaching.
The post-test went through faced validation coming from three experts to make sure that it is suitable to the respondents of the study. It is composed of 40 questions that were classified into animals, values, color and food. It used fill in the blanks, classification of words, matching type and identification as a type of questions. Several changes were made to measure the students’ ability to answer the questions and to maintain the validity of the questionnaire. The arrows signify that the undertaking is linear from the population to the pre-test to the intervention to the post-test.The Stage 2 of this research as shown on the following page tells the testing that was done to check on the significant difference between the pre-test and post-test results.