Competence in Oral Communication Skills of ALS Students in San Marcelino, Zambales

This descriptive quantitative study aimed to explore the Oral Communication competence of 20 ALS students in San Marcelino, Zambales. Particularly, the students were assessed in terms of fluency, comprehension and delivery through intensive, responsive and extensive speaking test. In this study, most of the respondents were aged twenty-six to thirty years old, female, with low income, single and belong to Tagalog ethnical group. The findings of the study revealed that after the administration of three different speaking skill tests, students were found to have a below average level of competence in Fluency, an average level of competence in Comprehension and below average competence in delivery. Furthermore, the result of the study shows no significant difference in students’ oral communication competence when grouped according to profile variable. However, it was revealed that there is a positive correlation in oral communication competences among ALS students. The study recommends the implementation of intervention material which was constructed based on the results and findings of this study, thus Strategic Intervention Material (SIM) was developed.