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

Abstract

Abstract: The research concerns the linguistic and emotional factors that influence the oral communication skills of high school students in educational environments face-to-face learning. The objective was to determine and compare the linguistic factors and emotions that affect oral productivity in the teaching and learning process of English. The study was carried out in a private school in the province of Pichincha, canton. Mejía, and a mixed method was used with quantitative and qualitative paradigms, so to To carry out this study, forty first-year high school students and one English teacher. The instruments applied to the students and the teacher were a questionnaire, a semi-structured interview and an observation sheet. The results demonstrated that linguistic and emotional factors considerably affect the oral production of English. Likewise, the lack of vocabulary was the most important linguistic factor predominant, and the lack of motivation in students is the emotional factor that most influenced the development of oral communicative competence. In the same way, it was analyzed that linguistic factors were the ones that hindered communication skills the most oral of English as a foreign language students.