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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