Impacts Of Semantic Knowledge on Grade 11 SHS Students' Language Understanding and Writing Construction

This study examined the impacts of semantic knowledge in both language understanding and construction among Grade 11 Senior High School students at Taal High School. Semantic knowledge, vocabulary breadth, and vocabulary depth are essential for understanding students and effectively expressing ideas. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study included quantitative measures such as the student's understanding of both written and spoken texts along with qualitative assessments that discriminated the impact on their writing skills. It has also provided ways of enhancing semantic knowledge in enhancing language understanding and writing construction using the five-point Likert scale alongside open-ended questions. Findings indicated students' perceived awareness of various semantic fields—formal, lexical, and conceptual semantics—which are crucial for language comprehension and effective communication. Secondly, the students did a good job in terms of ideas management and sentence formation. However, there is always scope for improvement in vocabulary and expression of complex thoughts that would make their writing even better.