3. Domain: Oral Language and Fluency
Content Standard: The students demonstrate
oral language proficiency
and fluency in various
social contexts
Performance Standard: (Q1) The learner
proficiency
renders rhetorical
pieces
23. 5.1.1. Integrated Language Arts
The Integrated Language Arts aims for the development of oral and written communicative
competence of learners in three languages: Mother Tongue, Filipino, and English.
Anchored on multilingualism, the Integrated Language Arts curriculum builds upon the
natural ability of Filipinos for language learning. Mother Tongue will be used to develop
language and literacy for Grades 1 to 3, then after Grade 3, Filipino and English will be
used. Oral and written Filipino are introduced in the first semester in Grade 1 and oral
English in the second semester.
The curriculum observed a spiral progression of the competencies across the levels but in the
high school level, there is greater emphasis on reading comprehension of various texts,
writing and composition, study and thinking strategies which are all in support of critical
and creative thinking development. Moreover, viewing will be an addition to the listening,
speaking, reading and writing learning macro-skills that will be developed. Content includes
print and electronic texts that are age-, context-, and culture-appropriate.
