
This study aimed to assess the listening and reading comprehension proficiency of the public elementary and high school teachers in Cebu, Philippines. The descriptive research design, simple frequency counts and percentage distributions were used in this research. Four hundredpublic school teachers in the Province of Cebu Philippines were the respondents of this research: two hundred teachers from the elementary and two hundred from high school. A teacher-made test was used to assess the listening and reading comprehension proficiency of the teachers. The highest percentage of scores of teachers from both elementary and high school belong to the above average level of proficiency in the listening comprehension skills. Moreover, in the reading comprehension skills, the highest percentage of scores of both elementary and high school teachers fall under the above average proficiency. This reveals that the teachers have the ability to process reading or listening text, understand its meaning, follow the organization of the passage, draw inferences, identify the main idea, determine the author’s purpose, recognize literary devices and understand the situational mood.