• Ma.Salome R. Magbanua

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• Ricky Andresito Naciongayo

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This quasi-experimental study attempted to determine the effectiveness of Web – Based Tongue Twisters as scaffold to overcome speech anxiety. Moreover, this would like to find out if web-based tongue twisters would minimize students’ speaking anxiety. The participants of this action research were the 47 third year Bachelor of Industrial Technology students, enrolled at Iloilo Science and Technology University. They were taught using the web -based tongue twisters downloaded from the internet as an intervention technique in their difficulty in the speech and oral communication class. A researcher-made instrument was used to obtain the students’ pre-intervention and post-intervention speech anxiety level. The questionnaire described the pre- and post-intervention speech anxiety level of the students. Means and standard deviations were computed. The significance of the difference in this investigation was determined using the t-test for dependent samples. Results showed that the respondents had the moderate speech anxiety level prior to and after the intervention; however, t-test results showed that a significant difference was noted between the pre - and post intervention speech anxiety level of the respondents. Results proved that exposure to web-based tongue twisters as instructional technique can help reduce speech anxiety, thus, improving speech and oral communication skills.

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