ISSN: 2782-893X
eISSN: 2799-0664
ISSN: 2782- 893X
Speaking is one of the essential elements of communication in English as foreign language teaching. Certainly, it is an aspect which needs extraordinary attentions and instructions. It should be developed and enhanced as a means of effective communication. It is also regarded as one of the most difficult aspects of language learning. Many language learners find it difficult to express themselves in spoken language. They are generally facing problems to use the foreign language to express their thoughts effectively and this has been identified as a struggle of the Grade 8 students of Bongabong Technical and Vocational High School. Hence, this study aimed to determine the speaking fluency of the Grade 8 students in terms of stress, intonation, pronunciation, and vocabulary using task-based learning activities. A total of 40 Grade 8 students were considered in the study. They were given different tasks to investigate their speaking performance individually, in pair, or in group. To measure their performance, a 5-point Likert’s scale rubric was used to evaluate what the students were having difficulty with and found out that they had struggle with pronunciation and vocabulary. The result showed that the students performed significantly different in the three performances based on the computed mean rating. Group performance outperformed individual and pair performance indicating that the techniques of teams promote the speaking fluency of the Grade 8 students. Also, there is a need to provide intervention using the proposed enhancement program as shown in the resulted low performance of the respondents.