SPOKEN ENGLISH HITCHES: A BASIS FOR LANGUAGE STRATEGIC INTERVENTION MATERIAL (LSIM)

Abstract

“Help me! I Can’t English!” Filipino students today often experience difficult moments in
expressing themselves when they are asked by their teachers to speak, discuss, or answer in
English. Most of the time they lose the chance to tell their thoughts, or worse, they lose the
chance to give the correct answer, so this action research is conducted mainly to (a) identify the
top five (5) causes/reasons why high school students nowadays experience difficulties in using
the English language orally; (b) to attend to these difficulties experienced by today’s high school
students.; and to propose additional useful Language Strategic Intervention Materials (LSIMs)
and strategies in teaching English speaking skills for the teachers’ use.