Development of Strategic Instructional Materials in the Oral Communication Context among the PRMSU First Year Students

ABSTRACT:To determine the students’ English Fluency in Using Communicative Strategies for the
Development of Strategic Instructional Materials in the Oral Communication Context among the First Year Students of the President Ramon Magsaysay State University (PRMSU) of the Main Campus in Iba, Zambales, in the Philippines during the academic year 2018 – 2019 was the focus of this research study.The researcher utilized experimental sampling with twenty-seven (27) student – respondents and determined the student – respondents’ profile through sex and school where the student – respondents graduated from Senior High School. The researcher included assessing the student – respondents’ level of English fluency as to Language Level of Production: Syntactic fluency, Semantic fluency, Speech Level of Production: Continuity and Duration, level of
usage of the students – respondents on the three communicative strategies as to Turn-taking, Topic control, and Topic shifting. The researcher took a video of the performances of the class divided into four (4) groups and coded the uttered words of each student. This study found out that the majority of the student – respondents were the students of the President Ramon Magsaysay State University, Iba, Zambales with 33.30% or 9 students, and there were 18 or equivalent to 66.70% are from other schools. Out of twenty-seven (27) respondents, there were 19 or equivalent to 70.40% are males and 8 or 29.60% are females.Founded on the summary of the investigations, the researcher has concluded that the student – respondents’ communication abilities did not manifest on the level of fluency performance in Activity1 and Activity 2 in the Syntactic fluency, Semantic fluency, Speech Level of Production. There is a significant difference in topic control dimensions as to syntactic, semantic, and speech level of production. There is no significant difference in turntaking strategy, topic control, and speech level of production when grouped according to school and sex profile variables.
KEYWORDS: Communicative Strategies, Syntactic fluency, Semantic fluency, Speech Level of
Production, Turn-Taking, Topic Control, and Topic Shifting