Factors affecting public high school student´s english communication skills..

Abstract

Abstract:The present investigation refers to the factors that affect oral skill in public school students, the main objective is to find the main causes that students face in class during oral production. This research was carried out in a high school in Quito-Ecuador, whose participants were 41 students of the first year of senior high school and one teacher. The methods used in this research were qualitative and quantitative. The first one, the qualitative method was used to understand and describe information about the pedagogical factors that influence oral communication. The quantitative method was used for the tabulation of the results achieved through the observation sheets and students survey. The results revealed that speech activities and strategies applied during teaching, play an important role in class and students like to learn and speak English, the only one thing they need is motivation to develop their speaking skills. Additionally, vocabulary lack, problems of using incorrect grammar rules, and pronunciation problems are factors that constraint students to improve their performance in communication skills.