Perceived Factors Affecting English Speaking Performance of BSE Students

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An Action Research

Presented to

the Faculty of the College of Teacher Education

QUIRINO STATE UNIVERSITY

Diffun, Quirino

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In Partial Fulfilment

of the Requirements for

ENGLISH 118A

Language Research

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Riezel Mae G. BAnig

Eddie G. Odson

May 2018

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The researchers would like to extend their profound gratitude and sincerest thanks

to the following people.

Ms. Lahaina Sue Azarcon, their language research professor, for pushing them to

conduct this study;

Ms. Mary Joy Roldan, the research statistician, for her patience;

Dr. Agaton P. Pattalitan Jr., Chairman of the BSEd department, for his favorable

response to their request regarding the floating of questionnaire to the respondents;

To the respondents, for sacrificing their time and effort in answering the

questionnaires;

To the librarian, and the assistant librarians of the QSU, for helping and assisting

them in finding references;

To their parents and siblings, for financial and moral support, and for the words of

encouragements and inspirations;

To their friends and peer, for cheering them up;

And above all, to the Almighty God, for his continuous blessings and guidance that

strengthened them and makes this paper possible.

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 DEDICATION

This piece of work is humbly dedicated to our family, to our supportive parents and

relatives, to our friends,

and most especially to Almighty God

RMGB & EGO

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE ………………………… i

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ………………………… ii

DEDICATION ………………………… iii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ………………………… iv

ABSTRACT ………………………… vii

CHAPTER PAGE

I. INTRODUCTION ………………………… 1

Objectives of the Study ………………………… 5

Statement of the Null- Hypothesis ………………… 5

Significance of the Study ………………… 5

Scope and Delimitation of the Study ………………… 6

II. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Research Design ………………………… 7

Research Environment………………………… 7

Research Instrument ………………………… 7

Data Gathering Procedure ………………… 8

Statistical Tools Used ………………… 8

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III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Profile of the Respondents ………………………… 9

Mean Agreement on the Perceived Factors Affecting English Speaking

Skill of the Respondents ………………………… 10

Mean Agreement on the Perceived Factors Affecting English Speaking

Skill of the Respondents when Respondents are grouped by Ethnic

Affiliation ………………………… 11

ANOVA on the Mean Agreement of the Perceived Factors Affecting

English Speaking Skill when Respondents are grouped by Ethnic Affiliation

………………………… 13

Mean Agreement on the Perceived Factors Affecting English Speaking

Skill of the Respondents when Respondents are

grouped by Age ………………………… 15

ANOVA on the Mean Agreement of the Perceived Factors Affecting

English Speaking Skill when Respondents are

grouped by Age ………………………… 17

Mean Agreement on the Perceived Factors Affecting English Speaking

Skill of the Respondents when Respondents are

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 grouped by Sex ………………………… 18

T-test on the Mean Agreement of the Perceived Factors Affecting English

Speaking Skill when Respondents are

grouped by Sex ………………………… 20

Frequency and Percentage of Respondents Who Respond on the

Supposed Environments for Learning

English Speaking Skill. ………………………… 22

Frequency and Percentage of Respondents Who Did Not Respond on the

Supposed Environments for Learning

English Speaking Skill. ………………………… 23

Conclusion ………………………… 24

Recommendation ………………………… 24

BIBLIOGRAPHY ………………………… 55

APPENDICES …………………………

Appendix A. Letter of request …………………

Appendix B. Questionnaire …………………

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 ABSTRACT
At present, English is known to be the universal language being learned and used

in various communication environment to serve its specific purpose. Hence, the English

language education aims to provide learners with the capabilities to understand the

language and the ability to both write and speak it. So, the inability of learners to speak the

language is an evidence of the aim not fully accomplished. Therefore, this study is

necessary to discover if the individuals being the respondents really have problems dealing

with speaking the English language with the use of quantitative method. Consequently, if

they have, what are these and how do they overcome such. There is a possibility that not

all learners encounter speaking problems but half of the possibility goes to the thought that

some learners struggle in English speaking. This serves as a good reason to research the

matter. The insights of this research might be able to help improve the teaching of the

English skills for more productive English learners, educators, and curriculum.

This study made use of a questionnaire as the main instrument. The

researchers chose 104 BSE students as respondents during the school year 2017-2018. The

result of the test was properly tabulated and analysed using frequency and percentage, T-

test, F-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).

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