Communicative Language Teaching for an Enhanced Speaking Competence of Grade 11 Students in Sta. Lucia National High School

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of communicative language teaching, such as content-based and task-Based instruction, in enhancing the speaking competence of grade 11 students in terms of fluency, vocabulary, grammatical accuracy, and pronunciation. The researcher hopes that the problems encountered in speaking might be alleviated through the study's outcomes and further promotes the use of the approaches used in this study. The use of these approaches paved the way to enhance further speaking competence in fluency, vocabulary, grammatical accuracy, and pronunciation. This might open doors to those students who are hesitant to express their ideas in speaking not only in English subjects but also in other disciplines. Through the study's findings, the possible approaches in further promoting these approaches will be clear and hopefully effective. Meanwhile, the study's findings on enhancing the students' speaking competence using communicative language teaching resulted in significant differences in fluency and grammatical accuracy. Whereas in terms of vocabulary and pronunciation, no significant difference was found. The results revealed that in terms of speaking competence, students have improved. However, the results also show that vocabulary and pronunciation skills are the competence found to have found the least mastered by the students since they are still in the adjustment period from the pandemic. They needed to be given more exposure to the vocabulary and practiced their pronunciation skills.