Voices of the Past: Collection, Classification, and Preservation of Children’s Literature in the City of Roxas

This study aimed to collect, classify, and preserve the undocumented and unpublished oral literature from five (5) coastal barangays in the City of Roxas (Olotayan, Libas, Culajao, Culasi, and Cogon) using Language Documentation (LD) as a baseline for creating contextualized instructional materials. Utilizing a qualitative developmental research design guided by the ADDIE Instructional Model, the researcher engaged nineteen (19) native elders and storytellers as key informants selected via judgmental and snowball sampling. Data collection through the conversational method yielded seventy-seven (77) oral literatures, seventeen (17) of which met the criteria for children's literature. These were classified into ten (10) traditional literature and folktales (legends), one (1) fantasy tale, three (3) poetries, and three (3) nonfictional stories. Out of these, eight (8) representative stories were integrated into an illustrated storybook compilation titled "Mga Tingog sang Nagligad" (Voices of the Past) with parallel English and Hiligaynon translations. The instructional material was evaluated by expert jurors and pilot-tested among forty-one (41) Grade Six learners through a Read-Aloud strategy. Quantitative analysis revealed that the storybook achieved an overall descriptive rating of "Very Acceptable" (M=3.84) during the development phase and "Very Usable" (M=3.98) during the implementation phase. The findings indicate that the localized storybook successfully preserves endangered cultural narratives while providing highly effective, engaging, and pedagogically sound instructional tools for language and literacy development.

Oral Literature, Language Documentation, Children’s Literature, ADDIE Model, Contextualization

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