Factors affecting EFL students oral communication skills

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of the present study entitled Factors affecting EFL student's oral communication skillswas to identify the pedagogical and individual factors that affect students' English oral communication capability. The study was conducted in two public high schools located in Quito.The participants wereforty students of the first and second year of senior high school and five English teachers.The data were collected through two instruments: a survey and an interview. The survey, whichwas centred on reports concerning the students factors,was applied to the learners and theinterview,concerning pedagogical traits,was applied to the educators. Furthermore, someclasseswere observed to collect precise data toanalyse.The datacollected from the instruments of individual and pedagogical factors were presented throughtwo Likert-scale tables. The results showed that pedagogical factorssuch as activities, and teaching resources affect communicative competence. On the other hand,motivation,anxiety,lack of vocabulary, and the absence of language practice in and out of class were identified as individualfactors that affectstudents oral communication competence.