Journal of Education and Human Development

Adopting Printed Flipped Communicative Tasks in Enhancing Students’ English Speaking Skills: Post-COVID Philippines scenario
Ronard P. Denopol

Abstract
The study was purposely conducted to assess the impact of adopting printed flipped communicative tasks in enhancing Filipinos’ English speaking skills during the post-COVID era where traditional in-person delivery was switched to blended learning and used enhancement tasks amid hampering economic and health threats. Students in wherever residence (residing in far-flung areas and those with accessible locations) were equally given opportunity to participate in this quasi-experimental research with two groups (control and experimental) with each 26 respondents, wherein the latter was exposed with the intervention. Speaking performance rubrics were utilized for the obtained quantitative data from the students’ assessed performance through an extemporaneous speech, another self-assessment was the learning experiences scale (0.8 cronbach alpha value) to check the impact of intervention in terms of intelligibility and integration of concepts, development in accuracy, prosody and comprehension, effective communication, art of persuasion and confidence level. Simple percentage, T-test, P-value analysis, and Pearson product-moment correlation were used to quantitatively show statistical results. Very positive impact of the printed flipped communicative tasks was evident in the experimental group (significant) and less obtained improvement from the control group (significant difference). As a conclusion, students’ performance relatively increases with varying levels of learning experiences indicating a non-linear relationship which signifies that each learner has unique intellectual absorption capacity of concepts thus performance cannot be generally predicted by whatever learning experience means. The printed flipped communicative task is recommended and deemed useful in the context of blended instructional delivery without supplanting effective physical instructional exposure.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/jehd.v12n2a9