Enhancing Students’ Communicative Skills through the Integration of Radio Drama Activity in Filipino

Communicative competence is a vital skill in Filipino education, enabling students to communicate effectively and participate productively in various social contexts. Using a single-group pretest-posttest design in this action research, we investigated radio drama as a strategy to enhance Grade Nine students' communicative skills in Filipino. This research was conducted in a public school in Ozamiz City during the 2024–2025 academic year with 30 students selected purposively. A quantitative approach was employed to deliver the intervention, and data were collected using a researcher-made test that assessed communicative performance. For statistical analysis, we used Minitab software and applied the mean, standard deviation, and t-test for before and after the intervention. The students' communicative skills were at the level "Did Not Meet Expectations" prior to the introduction of radio drama. The descriptive analysis reported a mean score of 7.25. Following the radio drama intervention, students performed at the level "Outstanding" with a mean score of 29.23. The t-value calculated in the analysis was -261.99 with a p-value of 0.00, which indicated that the difference was highly significant in a positive manner. The results of the study suggested that using radio drama to teach communication skills in Filipino instruction was a viable approach for developing students' communicative skills while also supporting language proficiency and creative expression. The study recommends that radio drama activities in Filipino classes and in similar contexts should be used to develop students’ engagement and language development.