Learning Experiences and Challenges: Factors Affecting Filipino Grammar and Sentences Construction

This paper reports on the issues which Grade 11 students' have in terms of Filipino grammar and sentence structure. We set out to identify what exactly these students are struggling with, how those issues play out in terms of their grammar and sentence structure skills, what the root causes of their struggle are, what factors play a role in their learning, and what strategies they put in place to overcome these issues. To do this we used a qualitative phenomenological research design which allowed for in depth look at the issue from the students' point of view. From Agustin Gutierrez Memorial Academy Inc. we chose 5 Grade 11 students for the study which we did via homogeneous purposive sampling. We did online semi structured interviews via messenger which we had designed ourselves. The data we collected went through a structured phenomenological analysis process which included note of key points, making sense of what we noted, we then put together themes from which we created a full report, and we also did member checking of our results. Also, we put out to present a picture of what the students' issues are regarding Filipino grammar and what causes them. Also, we hope that the results of this will be useful for teachers as they create better instructional methods and activities that will in turn improve students' grammar, sentence structure and their confidence in the language.