THE SPEAKING SKILL PROFICIENCY LEVEL OF FIRST YEAR BSED ENGLISH

STUDENTS USING ONLINE MODALITY IN RAMON MAGSAYSAY MEMORIAL

COLLEGES

CONCEPT PAPER

RONN GERICK F. ARTAJO

PRINCESS SARAH CABUG-OS

LORIE JEAN CALLE

EL CAMILLE CAPADA

DRANOELLE ARIELLE CATIG

SHIRLYN JOY CASICAS

OCTOBER 2021
 I. TITLE OF THE STUDY
THE SPEAKING SKILL PROFICIENCY LEVEL OF FIRST YEAR BSED
ENGLISH STUDENTS USING ONLINE MODALITY OF RAMON MAGSAYSAY
MEMORIAL COLLEGES

II. THE PROBLEM

A. Introduction
People prefer face to face exchange of communication, in academic and learning
aspect most of the students will choose traditional learning over online class. According
to Cathy Li and Farah Lalani, 2020, “different countries with different infected rates of
covid 19, worldwide there are currently 1.2 billion children’s in 186, countries affected
by school closures due to pandemic. With this sudden shift away from classroom in
many parts of the globe, some are wondering whether the adoption of online learning
will continue to persist post pandemic, and how the sich shift would impact worldwide
education.”

Online class is a huge challenge for the students in learning and improving, how online
modality can affect the speaking and other competence of the students. It is such a big
adjustment both for teachers and students, from traditional turns up into online. And
even years ago some of the students used online for their studies. Based to Allan Raper
(2007),” More and more, adult learners are finding the convenience and flexibility of
online learning a match for their learning goals and busy lifestyles. Online degree
programs, courses, and virtual universities targeting adult learners have proliferated in
the past decade. Although students can easily locate an online course or degree
program that's both convenient and accessible, they may face significant challenges in
developing a new set of skills for this type of instruction. Educators have speculated on
the development of student skills necessary to succeed in online learning, but relatively
few publications cover the topic from the perspective of successful online students. I
developed the study summarized here to provide this perspective and to identify useful
strategies that instructors can promote in their online courses”. Hence, Amer (2018)
made mention that online class become a platform of the teachers to overcome the
barrier in front of the learner. After all we are living 21st century whereas the
technology has been improved.

Even before the pandemic starts online learning and modality was already arisen. And
when the world was shaken by the pandemic, online become primary modality in terms
of teaching and learning. And some of the students, found online class as their
convenient in learning because they have easy access to the internet. However, this is
not applicable to all students, some students suffer from different challenges in online
learning modality. Moreover, together in the learning modality in online, students
should develop other competencies even in online. For instance, the speaking
competence of the students should improve as they improve their level of education.
Based on researchgate.net, speaking skills is a huge factor in learning second language,
in speaking skills it is important to know and learn the speaking ability of the learner.
And speaking ability depends on the two parts which are 1. Capability and character of
the learner and 2. Speaker participations. Character of the learner is what are idea and
background of the learner to the target language. Capability is how the learner receive
and treat the idea of the target Language. And in speaker participations is the
relationship of the speaker and the learner. Speaking documented that it able to share
opinion, argument, and intention to the other speaking, hence, speaking has a vital role
in communication, speaking requires audience and listener to receive feedback. And
there are factors that can cause of barrier to the students in oral skills, the anxiety self-
consciousness, anxiety, low inspiration, lack of motivation, poor participation, lack of
engagement, poor speaking exposure, and meddling from the first language as the
learner, and that is according to Zhang (2009). And these factors can still occur or even
worse in the online class, students tend to speak in participation in class, however these
factors affecting the students to speak up, that can causes not improving their speaking
competence.

Speaking is one of the major competences in language learning, and mostly of the
learner are having problems in improving their oral skills since their exposure to the
target Language is minimal. Learning English and becoming fluent in speaking is a must.
Social media is one of the platforms where people can contact their friend, colleague,
and family as well as people can share photos and interested materials, somehow the
technology expanded its function from bare entertainment, it uses now as one of the
primary modalities in learning and teaching, despite of the barrier and complications
such as, small screen, internet connection, and in presenting the presentation. The
different result of face-to-face interaction or teaching versus the in technology
mediated, the student’s effectiveness affected in the technology mediated. In the face-
to-face lecture it, more on teacher dominated approach, with less self-assessment of
the students, while in the online class students allows to give more time in
understanding and explaining the lesson by themselves.

Background of The Study

The Covid 19 pandemic have caught all the people around the world off guard. No
one saw it coming and no one is ever prepared for its disruptions. People made a huge
change in ways we used to navigate the world just to adjust and cope with the
pandemic. Due to the alarming increase of cases of the infected people and the severity
of the situation, the World Health Organization declared the epidemic as a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern of January 30, 2020. A lot of new rules has been
imposed and implemented exclusively addressed for the Covid 19 pandemic.
Many countries have suffered and dealt with the struggle brought by the pandemic,
especially the Philippines. A lot of critical sectors have been affected in the people's
lives, education. Schools around the world continue to struggle with the challenge of
education brought by the pandemic.
Due to the new norm in regards with the pandemic situation, social distancing has
become the priority that people should always consider. Everything that is necessary to
perform face-to-face have been moved to an online operation. Online class have
become the new way of pursuing education. It is one of the actions that has been taken
just to cope in the pandemic situation.
The transition of face-to-face learning to online learning have been specified by the
memorandum order of the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED) No. 4
Series of 2020 otherwise known as the "Guidelines on the Implementation of flexible
learning" on September 25, 2020.
Schools and educators are urged to be innovative in thinking of ways to facilitate
learning in the new normal. Students are used to have an oral recitation personally and
directly to their educator, they used to communicate face-to-face and improved their
speaking skills through classroom interaction or outside school interaction. The situation
comes with a challenge that everything that has been done in the traditional way would
now be done online. The unfamiliarity of the students with the new situation became a
challenge to their speaking skill proficiency using online modality since they will just be
going to talk and interact with their educators and classmates online. Rodrigues &
Vethamani (2015) conducted research entitled "The Impact of Online Learning in the
Development Speaking Skills". The study gives emphasis to the effectiveness of online
speaking programmed in positively impacting students' oral skill development. This
implies that enhancing the English grammar and communicative competence is possible
and attainable in doing online classes. The title of the study implies that despite using
online modality in learning, it has its pros' outcome.
Even so, the pandemic is the root why there's a change in the way of learning especially
in assessing the students' proficiency in Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges. Hence
the researchers should find the pros and cons effect in the Speaking skill of the first year
BSED English students in Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges and should require
him/her to find answer on how to address with the problems.
A. Need for The Study
The Study focuses in Identifying the Proficiency level of the students in terms of
speaking in Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges. Online class become primary
modality of learning since the pandemic shaken the whole world, The Researchers
assessing the participants how can studying online affects the development of
competence of the students in every area, specifically in speaking. The ability to speak is
regarded as the most crucial skill by language learners. Because many learners' objective
in language learning is to be able to communicate smoothly in both formal and casual
settings, classroom activities should be tailored to encourage oral fluency. The purpose
of this study was to assess learner's proficiency skill in terms of speaking using the
online modality. For this purpose, the researcher conducted the current study on the
First Year BSED English Students proficiency level of speaking using online modality. The
participants' performances across speaking were recorded and transcribed for data
analysis.
Essentially, the study's findings assist learners in recognizing the most visible difficulties
they encounter when speaking, and thus the researcher is obligated to formulate
solutions in addressing these difficulties to assist learners in coping with the
fundamental in online modality assessing the students' learning in speaking skills.
Furthermore, the researchers' constructive theory developed from acquired data and
empirical observation will throw light on the challenges encountered by learners at the
online modality-based speaking skill proficiency level.

A. Statement of the Problem

This study aims to discuss the effect (good or bad) of using online modality in the
speaking skill proficiency level of first year BSED English students at Ramon Magsaysay
Memorial Colleges. More specifically, this study seeks to answer the following
questions:
 1. What are the differences when it comes to the communicative competence of the
BSED English students at Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges in using online class
compared to face-to-face class?
2. What are the common difficulties that the first year BSED English of Ramon
Magsaysay Memorial Colleges are experiencing?

B. Scope and Delimitation

The main purpose of this study is to determine the factors leading to First Year BSED
English students' proficiency level in speaking skills. The study considers the students
viewpoints in speaking skills and their reasons why they always have difficulties in
speaking.
The researchers limited the study to all male and female first year BSED English
Student enrolled in the school year 2020-2021 of Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges.
Each of the respondents were interviewed through online forms application for the
researchers to get their point of view. The students selected came from different
sections of BSED English to prevent bias and get their objective perceptions.
Only the BSED English students were chosen to participate in the study because it is
our main topic where we conducted the research.

III. Methodology
This chapter presents the methodology that was employed in this study. This includes
research design, research locale, data gathering procedure, instrumentation, and
statistical statement of the study.
A. Research Design
This study utilized the descriptive survey of research method. This was designed to
determine the speaking skill proficiency level of first year BSED English students using
online modality of Ramon Magsaysay memorial colleges. It is descriptive in a sense that
the data obtained are analyzed and comprehend. the Speaking is the main language
 skill; however, majority of students and learners in EFL contexts struggle to overcome
their speaking difficulties since their exposure to situations where speaking skill could be
practiced is scarce (Agudo, 2019; Ding, Er, & Orey, 2018). Having recognized the
potential of technology-mediated learning for supporting students’ learning, we
examined how it may influence students’ learning effectiveness and satisfaction, using
online learning as a comparative baseline. Consistent with the analysis provided by Clark
(1994)

The purpose of the study was twofold. First, we examined components of speaking
performances of YLSs at different levels of proficiency to inform construct definitions for
YLS oral performance assessments. We focused on the domain of speaking because, as
noted, oral language is the essence of young learners’ language learning and central to
the language ability of young EFL learners. McKay (2006)
B. Research Local
This study will be conducted at Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges, General Santos
City, located at Pioneer Avenue, General Santos City. This intuition in region 12 is the
only one accredited by the PACUCOA (Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities
Commission on Accreditation). This school was established since 1960. At present, is
headed by College President Mr. Kristoffer Franz Mari R. Mill ado, MA and College Vice-
President Mrs. Geraldine Rodriguez, Ph.D. along with the faculty and staff.
C. Key Informants
The participants of this study are BSED English student at Ramon Magsaysay Memorial
Colleges. The selection of the participants is based on who are available and willing to
answer the provided question prepared by the researchers.
 Participants Description
 Must enrolled BSED English in
BSED English First Year students Ramon Magsaysay Memorial
Colleges
 Male or Female
 Using online as primary modality for
its learning

D. Instrument
The prime objectives of this study are to identify, define, and discuss the effects (good
or bad) of using online modality in the speaking skill proficiency level of first year BSED
English students of Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges. The research shall interview
the respondents in an online platform (preferably Google Docs) whereas the researchers
will provide the document for the questionnaire, and out of the gathered data and the
researchers’ critical scrutiny, the effects of using online modality in the speaking skill
proficiency level of first year BSED English students of Ramon Magsaysay Memorial
Colleges will be discovered and thoroughly identified.

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V. Project Timeline

Date Specific Activities

1. Preparation of proposal
October-November 2021 2. Presentation of proposal
3. Revision of proposal

December 2021 to March 2022 1. Development

2. Data gathering

1. Organization of data
September 2021 to November 2022 2. Presentation of data
3. Writing of chapter 4 and 5
4. Final presentation of research
output
October 2022 1. Revision and Bookbinding