Summary
Factors Influencing Intermediate Learners' Reading Proficiency and a Proposed Intervention
Highlights
Intermediate learners believe their reading proficiency is significantly enhanced by motivation, diverse reading materials, effective reading strategies, and consistent support from family and teachers.
Intermediate teachers perceive that reading fluency is greatly influenced by reading motivation, diverse materials, effective reading strategies, and consistent support from both family and school.
Despite slight improvements from 2024 to 2025, the Phil-IRI results in English for intermediate learners show their reading proficiency remains at the instructional level.
No significant relationship was found between the factors affecting reading proficiency levels of intermediate learners and their Phil-IRI results. However, a strong and significant correlation exists between the factors as perceived by their teachers and their Phil-IRI results.
An enhanced reading intervention program has been developed. This program integrates motivation-building activities, diverse reading materials, effective strategies, structured support, and technology to improve reading proficiency factors and boost intermediate learners' English Phil-IRI results.