Communicative Grammar Difficulties of Grade 11 Students: Inputs for Developing and Evaluating Reinforcement Learning Materials

This study aimed to determine the communicative grammar competence level of Grade 11 students of Mayamot National High School, Mayamot, Antipolo City during the school year 2021-2022 which could serve as inputs for the development and evaluation of reinforcement learning materials.The researcher used the descriptive research design since it is concerned with developing and evaluating communicative grammatical reinforcement learning materials (CGRLMs) for Grade 11 students. The most difficult grammatical learning competencies of the Grade 11 students were identified using a teacher-made diagnostic test in communicative grammar and were evaluated and validated by five (5) English expert teachers. The identified most difficult served as topics in developing reinforcement learning materials. The respondents of the study were 218 Grade 11 students, 20 English teacher respondents in Grade 11, and ten (10) English experts from some selected secondary schools in District 1-D of the City Schools Division of Antipolo City. The data-gathering instrument used was an evaluation questionnaire with six criteria: authenticity, clarity, usefulness, suitability, relevance, and meaningfulness. Based on the results, the developed CGRLM was evaluated by Grade 11 students, Grade 11 teachers and English experts as Highly Acceptable (HA). More so, there were no significant differences among the evaluations of Grade 11 students, Grade 11 teachers of English, and English experts on the developed CGRLM.The respondents also provided comments and suggestions to further improve the developed materials.