Impact of Online Tutorial on Tutees' Speaking Performance and Tutors' Self- Efficacy

This action research presents the impact of online tutorial program especially to tutors’ self-efficacy and the tutees’ public speaking skill. These tutors are fifteen (15) college students who volunteered as online English tutors and the tutees are fifteen (15) public school students in Cebu during the local lockdown in 2021. It was anchored ADDIE Instructional Design. The results of the needs analysis in the Planning Stage showed that tutees needed English speaking lessons due to suspension of face-to-face (f2f) classes. In the Design Stage, I conducted tutors’ training and developed the instructional materials which underwent validity and reliability. In the Implementation Stage, each volunteer tutored one student for two months via Google Meets. Each session had different speech discussions and activities that catered their speech needs which were analyzed before the start of the online tutorial program. Findings from the pretest-posttest scores comparison showed a significant difference on the tutees’ speech presentation skills. Findings from the interviews and FGD surveys showed both positive experiences such as continuous learning and love of service and negative experiences such as distractions due to intermittent internet connection to both the tutors and the tutees. This research recommends: (1) Support from the school for the needs of the students especially in the use of gadgets (2) Continue using online tutorial to supplement learning in ftf classes.