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

Abstract

Abstract: The present research, titled Factors that influence oral communication in English of high school students in Ecuadorian in-person learning environments, had The objective is to investigate which are the linguistic and emotional factors that most affect students and inhibit them from communicating orally adequately. For this conducted this study in a private school with 43 first-year high school students and his English teacher in Sangolquí, Pichincha province, Ecuador. The method used was a mixed research approach containing both qualitative and quantitative data. The The instruments used were a questionnaire for the students, a survey for the teacher, an interview with the students of 1 BGU and an observation sheet. According to the results obtained, the students were affected almost equally by emotional and linguistics. Furthermore, the linguistic factor that most affected the students was the use of their mother tongue because they wanted to translate every word from Spanish to English. On the other hand, The emotional factors that most affected the students were fear, nervousness and anxiety when speaking in oral activities. These factors were consequence of the risk they ran of obtaining low grades in the English subject.