How Do Students Learn Beyond the Dominion of Teacher Talk?

Author/s: Leilani T. Señires
Date Posted: 08-July-2025
Posted by: Marjun Rebosquillo

Abstract

The deteriorating macro skills of learners of this generation is very alarming and this leaves a challenge to every educator. The famous teacher talk is a deterrent in improving and refining the four macro skills thus the researcher did extra mile to discover how learners can be helped in actively engaging them to a collaborative reallife language task-based activities where communicative language teaching approach is used. The researcher used action research design and used random sampling in determining the 24 participants of the study. The researcher also used triangulation to check accuracy and validity of the data. Based on the data gathered, it was found out that students do not like teachers dominating the class discussion because for them, it is boring, and it will not give them the chance to share their own thoughts and understanding on the topic. The students like it if the teacher would give them challenging activities that would stir their minds and make them feel alert in using their creative mind. The participants are happy if being challenged and if pushed to do challenging tasks for they believe that it helped them improve their skills in speaking, writing, listening, and collaborating with other classmates. Group activities are found to be good because they harness students’ confidence and critical thinking skills. Hence, educators must be creative and innovative and must apply student-centeredness in teaching to allow the holistic development of learners especially its macro skills.