2025 IJRSE – Volume 14 Issue 17
Available Online: 23 November 2025
Author/s:
Sta. Ana, Maureen T.
Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College, Philippines (suceducator30@gmail.com)
Abstract:
The study explored the students’ competency level and teachers’ strategies and difficulties in the Reading and Writing Skills subject. Moreover, this aims to develop a training design to address teachers’ satisfactory competency level, teachers’ strategies, and difficulties encountered in teaching the course. Using the mixed-method convergent-parallel design, it identified the following: (1) competency level of student-participants in the Reading and Writing Skills subject; (2) teaching strategies employed to teach the course; (3) difficulties encountered in teaching the course; and (4) training design to help elevate the performance of students and teachers in the course. Findings show that the competency level of students is 39.78 described as satisfactory; the teachers employed norms-based teaching and they encountered difficulties in attitude-related problems, language learning problems, limited resources and time. In addition, a training design can elevate the performance of the students. The study also highlights that teachers may design and implement instructional activities to elevate the performance of the students in the said subject. In addition, teachers need to be sent to trainings, workshops, and seminars to be equipped with strategies in teaching the subject. In addition, the proposed training design may be funded and implemented to improve the delivery of the Reading and Writing Skills subject at the institution.
Keywords: competency level, teaching strategies, teaching difficulties, training design, convergent-parallel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2025.25300
Cite this article:
Sta. Ana, M. T. (2025). Pedagogical strategies and learners’ competency in reading and writing skills: Input for a training design. International Journal of Research Studies in Education, 14(17), 103-113. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2025.25300