Viewing Skills Understanding the Word and the World

Breakthroughs in information and communication technology continue to revolutionize the educational system. As a global citizen, the learner must be properly equipped with the knowledge and skills, attitudes and values necessary to cope with the changes. Since the buzz for educational transformation is life-long learning, it is the task of the teacher to develop among the youth, the 21^st century skills. The researcher strongly believes that these skills include critical viewing skills. Hence, this study determined the viewing skills of 30 sophomore Bachelor of Education major in English in one state university in the Philippines using the descriptive method. Data gathered were subjected to statistical analysis using frequency and percentage, mean and F-test at 0.05 level of significance. Most of the respondents have televisions at home and watch TV one hour a day; majority watch news, documentary shows and “teleserye”; have excellent viewing skills along sequencing events, while good viewing skills along getting the main idea, identifying the theme and sensing character traits. Sensing character traits has a significant difference with the availability of multimedia materials at home. As a result of this educational venture, enrichment activities focused in enhancing viewing skills were developed.

Keywords – enrichment activities, sophomore BSEd major in English, viewing skills