APPROVAL SHEET

This thesis entitled “Speech Fluency among the

Criminology Students, An Empowerment Tool for Police
Function”, prepared and submitted by Mervin Albina, Marwin
Diente, Abegail Go, Charleen Pangilinan and Ma. Louisa
Villanueva, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Bachelor of Science in Criminology, has been
examined and is hereby endorsed for oral examination,
approval and acceptance.

ANGELES G. CASTILLO, Ed. D

Adviser
___________________________________________________________

PANEL OF EXAMINERS

Accepted and approved by the panel of examiners on Oral

Examination with a grade of ______.

REX S. APARICIO, MSCrim

Chairperson

LORENZO I. BALILI Jr., MAEdTech

Member

ARTHELO P. PALMA, PhD

Member

Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the

requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Science in
criminology.

ERLIND P. ZURITA, PhD

Vice President for Academic Affairs

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The researchers would like to express their gratitude

for the cooperation and support of their loving parents and

guardians, without their help the accomplishments the

researchers achieved today would be unattainable.

The Almighty God for His constant presence and

guidance, giving the researchers their will and strength to

continue the study. The researcher’s adviser, Angel

Castillo, Ph. D, for lending the researchers a helping hand

and guiding them towards the completion of their study.

Rex S. Aparicio, Ms. Criminology,

Arthello Palma MBA , and Mr, Lorenzo Balili Jr. for their

supervision in insuring the quality of our study is up to

par with the school’s standard. Ms. Arjie Lou Sabatin, for

helping the researchers in their time of need and carefully

catering their need. The V.P of Academic Affairs for letting

the researchers conduct the study. And the Program Head for

letting the researchers have the opportunity and experience

in conducting a study.
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE i

APPROVAL SHEET ii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii

TABLE OF CONTENTS v

LIST OF FIGURES vii

ABSTRACT

Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING 1

INTRODUCTION 1

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 3

HYPOTHESIS 4

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 4

THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 13

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 16

DEFINITION OF TERMS 17

Chapter 2 METHODOLOGY

RESEARCH DESIGN 18

RESEARCH RESPONDENTS 18

DATA GATHERING PROCEDURES 20

PROCEDURE OF THE STUDY 22

Chapter 3 RESULTS

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND

INTERPRETATION OF DATA 25

LEVEL OF SPEECH FLUENCY OF CRIMINOLOGY

STUDENTS 25

LEVEL OF EMPOWERMENT TOOL IN

POLICE FUNCTION 29

SIGNIFICANCE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

SPEECH FLUENCY AND POLICE FUNCTIONS

OF THE RESPONDENTS 26

Chapter 4 SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

SUMMARY 35

CONCLUSIONS 36

RECOMMENDATIONS 36

REFERENCES 38

APPENDICES 40

CURRICULUM VITAE 51
 ABSTRACT

Speech Fluency is a skill that is often use by the

people in either their daily lives or in a professional

setting. To understand the relationship of the Criminology

Students in the Davao Central College and their perception

if their level of skill in terms of Speech Fluency may use

as an Empowerment Tool in their study and future professions

a research was conducted.

This research is based on the Theory of Second Language

Acquisition by Stephen Krashen and the Social Development

Theory by Leo Vygotsky. A survey was conducted and later it

was found out that it the two variables did not correlate.