| ORAL VS CREATIVE PRESENTATION SKILLS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS: BASIS FOR INTERVENTION FOR BETTER EMPLOYABILITY |
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| Augusto C. Africa, Daisy A. Ilagan, Agnes Tadia, Angelica Fe Liwag, Jacqueline Ocampo |
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| Abstract |
| This research determined the balance between the use of technology and oral communication skills among college students as factors for employability. Respondents were sophomore students who had taken the Purposive Communication (PC) course. Questionnaire was used to gather data. For statistical analysis, weighted mean and standard deviation were employed. Findings revealed that students are comfortable with technology as they see themselves in the virtual world. They can further share informative, expository, argumentative, and narrative texts to a moderate extent. Also to the same extent are the problems that students commonly encounter during oral presentation. Such include committing mistakes while presenting, feeling anxious and nervous, experiencing mental block, panicking, and worrying over grades and possible negative feedback. The results also showed that students can relatively answer questions within the knowledge, comprehension, application, and evaluation level. They believe that oral competence is only important in their prospective career phases to a moderate extent. The PC teachers, on the other hand, perceive that students tend to be lacking in the areas of pronunciation, grammar, speech flow, vocabulary, listening, comprehension, and organizational skills. Consequently, a significant difference was found in terms of the perceptions of teachers and students in relation to the studied skills. |
| Keywords |
| career path, oral communication, oral presentation competence, Purposive Communication, technical skill, technology |
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