This study seeks answer to the level of linguistic competence of the intermediate students. Eventually, from the findings drawn out of the study a Language Development Program will be designed and proposed. This study employed the non-experimental descriptive survey research design in investigating the research problem. It is descriptive because the data are presented in quantitative descriptions on the “Linguistic Competence of Grade Six Students: Basis for Language Development Program for Intermediate Learners. According to Good (2005), this method of research shows merely description of tasks presenting the conditions regarding the nature of the group of persons or class of events that involved procedure of analysis, classification, and measurement. It involves varied information regarding the current or present condition (Deauna, 2005). This study will be conducted in Sulop Central Elementary School. The respondents in this study are the 185 intermediate students of the research locale. The respondents will answer a researcher made assessment test on their oral and written communication skills. This study makes use of the universal sampling procedure considering the manageable number of respondents in the research locale. This study revealed that the intermediate students are struggling in their linguistic competence. This means that a development program should be developed to address their linguistic competence in order for them to be performing in English and other subject areas where English is the medium of instruction.