Strengthening the Oral Communicative Competence of Senior High School Students through Inquiry-Based and Content-Focused Approaches
Keywords:
constructivist strategy, content-focused, active learning, oral communicative competenceAbstract
This study investigated the effect of inquiry-based and content-focused approaches on the oral communicative competence among the 64 Senior High School students of a public high school in the Division of El Salvador City, Philippines for the SY 2016-2017. A teacher made English language speaking tests was administered to assess the students’ English speaking ability. The test consisted of six items (four mini-guided-situation and two picture-description test items) which reflected the current issues senior high school students were familiar with. Before the intervention, the students from the inquiry-based group were in the “Developing” level for the following competencies: relevance, organization, vocabulary and non-verbal cues and improved to “Approaching Proficiency” after the intervention. With the students exposed to content-focused approach, there were minimal increases in the students’ performance for relevance, organization and non-verbal cues after the intervention. Furthermore, students exposed to inquiry-based approach yielded a significant difference in their pretest and posttest in the said competencies except for vocabulary skill. Students who were exposed to content-focused approach showed no significant difference in their pretest and posttest ratings in oral communication skills. Moreover, there were significant differences in the mean improvement of the two groups in their oral communication skills with the students exposed to inquiry-based approach showing higher mean.
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