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

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Abstract:Research factors that influence oral communication skills in English of high school students in Ecuadorian face-to-face learning environments, Its purpose is to determine those emotional and linguistic factors and to identify how they affect the oral production of the foreign language in high school students. This The research was applied in a private school in Quito, and the participants were 40 first, second and third year high school students. This research had a qualitative and quantitative approach, so the mixed method was applied through surveys, interviews and classroom observations to collect information crucial on linguistic and emotional factors. It was possible to determine that the lack of vocabulary, the limited knowledge of the grammar and the interference of the mother tongue, are linguistic factors that affect the oral communication; as well as there are emotional factors such as fear, tension and the anxiety that are also influencing. It is concluded that students tend to think first in Spanish when they have to produce messages in the foreign language, for this reason speech is difficult to understand as it presents transfer errors from Spanish to English.