Cultural and Linguistic Validation of the KAFILUM Dictionary in the Philippine K to 12 Curriculum

The research about the development and validation of the Filipino dictionary is intended to assist the learners under the new implemented program of the Department of Education in the Philippines which is the K to 12 program. The curriculum is being implemented in the Philippine educational system since 2014, which consist of different tracks in the following disciplines: 1) Academic track; 2) Technical Vocational Livelihood track; 3) Sports track; 4) Arts and designs. Problems in terms and words used in the said curriculum find a bit difficulty in teaching that’s why the researcher develop a material. A Research and Design method was used. All the contents, organization and styles of the instructional material in different tracks were analyzed. There were a total of 800 words included in the dictionary list. The words were chosen carefully based from the most frequently used terminologies in the said curriculum. The function of the words as to how they are used as parts of speech were also included. They were also defined operationally on how the teacher used the word in teaching the tracks. The following criteria: content, organization and style where used to evaluate the material. All the three criteria obtained a perfectly acceptable rating from the validators. The contents had a computed mean of 4.60 while organization received a weighted mean of 4.78. The appropriateness of the disciplines according to the Academic Track of the k-12 Curriculum evaluated and resulted as: 1)Business and accountancy had a general weighted mean of 4.63; 2) Computer technology obtained a 3.70 weighted mean; 3) Communication and Arts garnered 4.63 weighted mean; 4) General education had a computed general weighted mean of 3.91. Thus, majority of the findings resulted the materials in to perfectly acceptance where it gives big help in teaching/learning academic tracks.