Radio-Based Instruction in Teaching Literary Criticism

Radio-Based Instruction is one of the modalities that is being implemented through the use of radio station and providing learning in the comfort of their own homes. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of the Radio-Based Instruction in teaching literary criticism to Grade 10 students of Caputatan Norte Integrated School of Medellin District, Medellin, Cebu for School Year 2020 – 2021. Specifically, this study identified the pretest and posttest total scores of the experimental group (learners under Radio-Based Instruction and Modular Learning) and control group (learners under Modular Learning only). This further sought to find whether there was a significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores of the control and experimental group. Uses and Gratifications Theory and Interactive Radio Instruction Approach supported this study. After the intervention process, a Mann-Whitney U-test was conducted to reveal the significant difference within the control and experimental group between the pretest and posttest scores. The means of the pretest and posttest were being compared as basis for the t-test. Results revealed that there was a significant difference in experimental group's scores in the pretest and posttest while there was no significant difference on the control group's total scores in the pretest and posttest. There was no significant difference on the pretest and posttest scores of control and experimental group and there was a significant difference between the posttest scores of control group and the experimental group. This implied that Radio-Based Instruction contributes to the improvement of the overall scores of the students. Improving Radio-Based Instruction, learning modules and Radio stations were recommended in this study.