Enhancing Speaking Skills
for
Effective Communication
(A Comprehensive Curriculum Design)
Presented to:
Dr. Joean B. Palahang
In Partial Fulfillment of the Final Requirement for
The Teacher and the School Curriculum
( Educ 202)
Cagatin, Jean Ceceil M.
Lansang, Jona Cris I..
Lomongo, Jonna Rose B.
Lopez, Jecelmy A.
Macalisang, John Isaiah
Maglasang, Adel C.
I. Introduction and Rationale:
Overview: This course, “Enhancing Speaking Skills for Effective Communication” is designed for high
school students (Grade 7-10) to empower them with the necessary tools and strategies to become confident and
proficient speakers. This course focuses on various aspects of speaking, including clarity of speech,
vocabulary expansion, confidence building, effective use of language, and presentation skills. Through a
combination of targeted instruction, practice activities, and feedback, learners will develop the skills needed to
communicate effectively and articulate their thoughts, ideas, and feelings in various contexts.
Rationale: This course "Enhancing Speaking Skills for Effective Communication" is specifically designed to
cater to the needs of high school students in grades 7 to 10. This stage of education is crucial for developing
essential communication skills that will benefit students throughout their academic journey and future
careers.The rationale behind this course is to equip students with the necessary skills to communicate
confidently and effectively in both academic and real-life situations.
II. Target Audience:
Grade Level: The curriculum is specifically designed for students in grades 7 to 8, targeting their unique
developmental needs and focusing on enhancing their speaking skills to meet the expectations at this stage of
their education.
Background: The target audience for the course "Enhancing Speaking Skills for Effective Communication"
comprises a diverse group of students with varying levels of proficiency in speaking. These students come
from diverse cultural backgrounds and exhibit individual learning styles and abilities
III. Learning Objectives:
By the end of the course, students will:
1. Demonstrate Improved Ability:
- Identify main ideas and supporting details in diverse texts.
- Apply effective strategies for understanding and interpreting different genres of texts.
2. Engage in Critical Thinking:
- Develop critical thinking skills and inferential reasoning during reading.
3. Utilize Vocabulary and Context Clues:
- Expand vocabulary and effectively use context clues to enhance comprehension.
4. Demonstrate Effective Note-Taking:
- Acquire note-taking and summarization skills to extract key information from texts.
IV. Scope and Sequence:
The curriculum is organized into six modules, each building on the skills developed in the previous one:
1. Module 1: Introduction to Speaking
- The introduction of speaking is important because it sets the tone, provides a roadmap,
establishes credibility, and creates an engaging atmosphere. It plays a crucial role in effective
communication and can greatly enhance the overall impact of our conversations and
presentations.
2. Module 2: Identifying Main Ideas and Supporting Details in Enhancing Speaking Skills
- Identifying main ideas and supporting details is essential for enhancing speaking skills as it
promotes clarity, organization, focus, coherence, and effective communication. It enables us to
deliver a well-structured and engaging speech that resonates with our audience. By practicing
this skill, we can become more confident and impactful speakers.
3. Module 3: Understanding Different Strategy in Enhancing Speaking Skills
- Understanding different strategies is essential for enhancing speaking skills because it enables
us to adapt to different audiences, overcome communication barriers, communicate
persuasively, build confidence, and be adaptable to various speaking situations. By expanding
our repertoire of strategies, we become more effective and versatile communicators.
4. Module 4: Barriers in Speaking Skills
- Barriers in speaking skills are important because they raise awareness, highlight areas for
improvement, encourage adaptability, develop problem-solving skills, foster empathy, and
promote a mindset of continuous improvement. By acknowledging and addressing these
barriers, we can enhance our overall speaking abilities and become more effective
communicators.
5. Module 5: Models of Specifications
- Models of specifications are essential for clear communication, consistency, accuracy, quality
assurance, legal compliance, and efficiency. They provide a framework for documenting
requirements and expectations, supporting effective collaboration and successful project
outcomes.
6. Module 6: Communication in real life setting
- Communication is essential in real-life settings as it builds relationships, allows us to express
needs and desires, resolves conflicts, shares information and knowledge, facilitates decision-
making, creates positive change, and contributes to personal and professional success.
Developing strong communication skills can greatly enhance our interactions and overall
quality of life.
V. Content and Materials:
Speech and Presentation Guides: There are numerous books and guides available on public speaking and
presentation skills. These resources offer valuable tips, techniques, and strategies to improve your delivery,
overcome nervousness, and engage your audience effectively
Audio and Video Materials: Listening to audio recordings or watching videos of proficient speakers can be
highly beneficial. TED Talks, podcasts, interviews, and speeches by renowned speakers can serve as
inspiration and provide you with examples of effective communication techniques, storytelling, and persuasive
speaking.
Texts: The curriculum incorporates a diverse selection of texts, including fiction and non-fiction articles, short
stories, poems, and excerpts from novels. This diversity aims to engage students with various writing styles
and perspectives.
Online Resources and Courses: Take advantage of online resources, such as websites, blogs, and online
courses, that offer tips, exercises, and interactive platforms to enhance your speaking skills. These resources
often provide practical advice, video tutorials, and opportunities for practice and feedback.
Multimedia: To cater to different learning styles, multimedia resources such as educational videos and
interactive online platforms are integrated, providing a dynamic learning experience.
Books and Reading Materials: Reading books, articles, and other written materials can expand your
vocabulary, improve your grammar and sentence structure, and expose you to different writing styles..
VI. Instructional Strategies:
1. Interactive Discussions: Encourages students to actively participate in discussions, allowing students to
express their thoughts verbally.
2. Role-plays and simulations: Engage students in role-plays and simulations that require them to
communicate and interact in various scenarios, allowing students to practice real-life situations and develop
their speaking skills.
3. Public Speaking Opportunities: Provide regular opportunities for students to deliver speeches or
presentations in front of the class, helping students to build confidence and improves their ability to
communicate effectively with larger audiences.
4. Collaborative Group Work: Assign group projects or activities that require students to collaborate and
communicate with their peers, allowing students to foster teamwork, active listening, and effective
communication skills.
5. Vocabulary Building: Incorporate vocabulary-building activities into lessons, such as word games,
vocabulary journals, or vocabulary quizzes, allowing students to expand their vocabulary and use language
more effectively in their speech.
6. Pronunciation Practice: Include pronunciation exercises and activities to help students improve their
pronunciation and clarity of speech, allowing students to practice specific sounds, intonation patterns, or stress
patterns in words and sentences.
7. Peer Feedback: Encourage students to provide constructive feedback to their peers after presentations or
speaking activities, allowing students to develop their critical thinking skills and providing opportunities for
self-reflection and improvement.
8. Model Speaking: Model effective speaking skills by providing clear and concise explanations, using
appropriate body language, and demonstrating active listening, helping students to learn by observing and
imitating these skills.
9. Authentic Materials: Incorporate authentic materials, such as videos, podcasts, or speeches, to expose
students to real-life examples of effective communication, allowing students to understand different speaking
styles and adapt their own communication accordingly.
10. Reflective Practice: Encourage students to reflect on their own speaking skills and set goals for
improvement, providing students' opportunities for self-assessment and reflection on their strengths and areas
for growth in speaking.
VII. Assessment and Evaluation:
Formative assessments: regular quizzes, interactive class discussions, and tracking of speaking logs providing
continuous feedback on students' advancements in developing speaking skills for effective communication.
This ongoing assessment framework facilitates prompt intervention and support to enhance students' speaking
skills for effective communication.
Summative assessments: mid-term and final oral presentations, comprehensive speaking exams, and a
portfolio demonstrating the progressive development of students' speaking skills for effective communication
throughout the course.
Rubrics: clear and well-defined rubrics are provided for both formative and summative assessments to ensure
transparency and consistency in evaluating students' progress and performance in their speaking skills.
VIII. Differentiation and Inclusion:
Varied instructional materials: Incorporating a variety of instructional materials such as authentic tecxts,
videos, real life scenarios to cater different learning styles and interest.
Grouping Strategies: Exposing students with pairs and teams is a great opportunity for them to enhance
speaking skills and to produce a collaborative atmosphere.
Self-reflection and goal setting: Fostering a culture of reflection and goal setting among learners. Encourage
learners to reflect on their speaking skills, letting them to identify the areas of their weakness and strength in
proportion of speaking skills and by providing them feedback and guidance to help them track their progress
and to celebrate achievements.
IX. Technology Integration:
Educational Apps: ELSA, Pimsleur and FluentU. These apps will stand as a great hand in improving students
communication skills with the use of technology and harvesting learning at the same time.
Online platforms: iTalki and speaky. Two examples of online platforms that will help to improve the learners
speaking skills and by this improvements will be on time.
X. Cultural Relevance:
Promotes understanding and unity within intercultural communication. The course highlighted the
importance of verbal and non-verbal communication, in conveying information effectively across different
culture. It also builds the learner’s confidence in cross cultural communication. The way we speak, the tone of
our voice, our facial expressions, and even our body language can mean different things in different cultures.
Understanding these nuances can help us avoid misunderstandings and promote harmony in our interactions.
Prepare students for career opportunities. this course emphasize the significant role of speaking skills in
economy and work related opportunities that requires effective communication. enabling Grade- 10 students
to understand that, speaking skills open up a wealth of opportunities, and particularly relevant not only in our
country, but also globally, where many work in industries like tourism, overseas employment, and call centers,
all of which require excellent communication skills.
XI. Parent and Community Involvement:
Public Speaking Workshops: Organize workshops where students can learn and practice public speaking.
Inviting local community leaders as guest speakers can provide students with real-life examples of effective
communication.
Cultural Exchange Program: Organize a cultural exchange program where students, parents, and community
members can share about their cultures. This can include traditional stories, dances, songs, and customs.
Storytelling Sessions: Arrange regular storytelling sessions where students, parents, and community members
can share stories. This can be done in different languages to promote understanding of diverse cultures
XII. Reflection and Revision:
Teacher Reflection: The teacher facilitate learners in learning speaking skills and help students develop
necessary speaking skills for an effective communication, in which it is a cornerstone of success, not just
academically, but in life as well. This course not only enhances student’s learning experience but also fosters a
more inclusive and dynamic classroom environment. Incorporating a variety of interactive activities, such as
group discussions, presentations, and role-plays, has also been effective in enhancing speaking skills. These
activities not only make learning more fun and engaging but also provide students with opportunities to
practice their speaking skills in a real-world context.
Student and Teacher Feedback: The students provide feedback in every activity or class discussion provided,
specifically related to enhancing speaking skills towards effective communication. the students are expected to
become more confident in their speaking abilities, and likely to participate more in class discussions,
presentations, and group projects. This course likely helps students lead to a greater appreciation for diversity
as they learn to express their thoughts and respect others' viewpoints. This course also allow students to
evaluate themselves on what area of speaking skills they are less capable and highly capable, discovering their
areas of improvement when it comes to speaking towards effective communication. Both the students and
teachers share constructive criticism through sharing insights, suggestions and opinions towards positive
reinforcement within teaching-learning environment.
XIII. Integration with Other Subjects:
To enhance speaking skills for effective communication, integrate activities from diverse subjects. In English,
include debates and discussions. In Drama, focus on role-playing and expressive speech. Science discussions
can develop technical communication, while History debates foster argumentation. Integrate multimedia
projects in Technology for oral presentations. Collaborative projects in Mathematics encourage explanation.
Physical Education can incorporate team-building communication activities. This interdisciplinary approach
ensures a well-rounded curriculum for comprehensive skill development.
XIV. Implementation Plan:
Needs Assessment: Administer a pre-course speaking skills assessment to identify individual strengths and
weaknesses.
Learning Objectives: Define three measurable objectives per module, such as improving pronunciation,
increasing vocabulary, and enhancing spontaneous responses.
Curriculum Structure: Design a 10-week course with weekly modules focusing on different aspects of
speaking skills, such as pronunciation drills, vocabulary building sessions, and interactive discussions.
Teaching Methods: Integrate role-playing exercises for practical application and use speech analysis tools for
personalized feedback.
Assessment Strategies: Implement weekly quizzes to assess progress and conduct a final speaking
proficiency exam at the end of the course.
Resource Selection: Choose a textbook with relevant speaking exercises and utilize online platforms for
interactive speaking simulations.
Incorporate Real-Life Contexts: Develop scenarios like workplace presentations and social gatherings for
role-playing.
Peer Interaction: Incorporate group projects that require collaboration and communication and organize peer
feedback sessions after speaking exercises.
Feedback Mechanism: Implement a system for immediate feedback during speaking activities and conduct
one-on-one feedback sessions at the midpoint of the course.
Cultural Sensitivity: Include cultural communication nuances in scenarios and discussions and provide
resources on intercultural communication.
Professional Development for Instructors: Conduct a workshop for instructors on incorporating technology
in teaching speaking skills and schedule bi-monthly meetings for instructors to share best practices.
Implementation Timeline:
Week 1-2: Pronunciation drills
Week 3-5: Vocabulary building activities
Week 6-8: Role-playing exercises
Week 9-10: Final speaking proficiency exam
Monitoring and Evaluation: Weekly reviews of quiz results and participation as well as mid-course
evaluation with adjustments made for the second half.
Feedback Loop with Stakeholders: Establish a monthly feedback session with learners to address concerns
and suggestions and regularly communicate with administrators to provide progress updates.
Continuous Improvement: Update course content based on feedback and emerging trends in effective
communication and offer a post-course survey to gather insights for future improvements.
