Teachers Communication Strategies and Language Skills of Secondary Learners: Basis for a Proposed Upskilling program

Abstract

Effective communication among the teachers encourages student success and promotes a conducive learning environment. Thus, this study focused on determining the teachers' communication, strategies, and language skills of secondary learners which hopefully served as basis for a proposed upskilling program. Specifically, this analysis intensively dealt with the level of teachers’ communication strategies as assessed by the school heads and department heads; master teachers and teachers themselves in terms of being concise, concrete, considerate, and clear. In this study the researcher employed descriptive quantitative method of research. The researcher utilized a self-made questionnaire as the main data gathering tool. This would be validated by the research experts. The statistical tools are the following: weighted mean; and correlation. The findings of the study revealed that respondents strongly agreed about the level of teachers’ communication strategies in terms of being concise, concrete, considerate and clear. It was also revealed that there was no significant difference in the assessment of the two groups of respondents on the level of teachers ‘communication strategies in terms of the above-mentioned variables. Meanwhile, the teachers strongly agreed about the level of language skills of learners in terms of preparation, confidence, clarity, and feedback. Moreover, there was no significant difference in the assessment between the level of language skills by the master teachers and teachers above the mentioned variables. On the other hand, there was a significant relationship between the level of the teacher’s communication strategies and the language skills of the learners. In terms of conciseness, between the language skills of the learners, in terms of preparation, confidence, clarity and feedback. Thus, an upskilling program based on the communication model was created based on the results of the study.