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

Abstract

Abstract: This study seeks to determine the linguistic and emotional factors that influence high school students English oral communication skills in face-to-face learning environments. It was accomplished in a public high school with a sample constituded by forty students from the 2st BGU C and their English teacher. Thus, for this specific investigatigation, the mixed method was applied, using quantitative and qualitative approaches. This way, the techniques used to gather reliable data were: surveys, interviews, and observation sheets. Through the surveys, the students had the opportunity to indicate which linguistic factors influence the development of their oral skills in English meassured by the Likert scale, as well as emotional factors. In addition, the instruments such as the teacher survey, the interview with the group of five students and the observation sheets provide this final project with a qualitative aspect that allows triangulating and contrasting significant data resulting from student surveys.