Exposure to Noise Pollution and the Reading Comprehension of the Fourth Year Students of Gov. Vicente Duterte National High School
Chapter 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING
Background of the Study Noise, defined as ‘unwanted sound’, is perceived as an environmental stressor and nuisance. Noise is a prominent feature of the environment including noise from transport, industry and neighbors (Stanfeld et al 2009). First and second grade school children who are chronically exposed to aircraft noise pollution have significant deficits in reading as indexed by a standard reading test administered under quiet conditions. These findings indicate that the harmful effects of noise are related to chronic exposure. The Department of Design and Environmental Analysis in the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell University provide evidence that the adverse correlation of chronic noise with reading is partially attributable to deficit in language acquisition. Children also suffer from impaired speech perception if exposed to noise. All of these findings statistically controlled for mother’s education. Furthermore, the children in this study were prescreened for normal hearing by a standard audiometric examination (Maxwell, L.2009). As defined by Partnership for Reading (2005), Reading comprehension is understanding a text that is read, or the process of "constructing meaning" from a text. Comprehension is a "construction process" because it involves all of the elements of the reading process working together as a text is read to create a representation of the text in the reader 's mind. In the study of Stanfiled and Mathenson at the Department of Psychiatry in London, UK found out that children exposed to environmental noise have consistency found effects on cognitive performance. The research evidence suggests that chronic exposure to noise affect cognitive functions involving central processing and language comprehension. According to Goines (1974), noise pollution interferes with the ability to comprehend normal speech and may lead to a number of personal disabilities and behavioral
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING
Background of the Study Noise, defined as ‘unwanted sound’, is perceived as an environmental stressor and nuisance. Noise is a prominent feature of the environment including noise from transport, industry and neighbors (Stanfeld et al 2009). First and second grade school children who are chronically exposed to aircraft noise pollution have significant deficits in reading as indexed by a standard reading test administered under quiet conditions. These findings indicate that the harmful effects of noise are related to chronic exposure. The Department of Design and Environmental Analysis in the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell University provide evidence that the adverse correlation of chronic noise with reading is partially attributable to deficit in language acquisition. Children also suffer from impaired speech perception if exposed to noise. All of these findings statistically controlled for mother’s education. Furthermore, the children in this study were prescreened for normal hearing by a standard audiometric examination (Maxwell, L.2009). As defined by Partnership for Reading (2005), Reading comprehension is understanding a text that is read, or the process of "constructing meaning" from a text. Comprehension is a "construction process" because it involves all of the elements of the reading process working together as a text is read to create a representation of the text in the reader 's mind. In the study of Stanfiled and Mathenson at the Department of Psychiatry in London, UK found out that children exposed to environmental noise have consistency found effects on cognitive performance. The research evidence suggests that chronic exposure to noise affect cognitive functions involving central processing and language comprehension. According to Goines (1974), noise pollution interferes with the ability to comprehend normal speech and may lead to a number of personal disabilities and behavioral
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