Factors that influence high school students' English oral communication skills in Ecuadorian face-to-face learning environments

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Abstract:This research was conducted with the purpose to determine the students' perceptions about linguistic and emotional factors oral communication skills in English, for the efficient development of communicative competence and to enrich the educational level. Four instruments: questionnaire for students and teachers, observation sheet and interview for students were used. To demonstrate the benefits of speaking English in the development of oral communication, 40 high school students, 29 males and 11 females of a public high school located in Cañar city participated in the research. A mixed-method approach was applied to answer the research questions related to linguistic and emotional factors that influence high school students English oral communication skills in face-to-face learning environments. The most relevant outcomes showed that linguistic factors such as lack of vocabulary and misuse of grammar are the ones that affect mostly the students oral communication. Finally, it was concluded that based-recompilation information of content which employs English oral communications skills turne.