ENGLISH Language Exposure and Learning of English as Predictors of Oral Performances among Senior High School STUDENTS

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the significant influence of English language exposure and English language learning as predictors of oral performance among senior high school students. The researcher employed a quantitative descriptive-correlational design, which involved 250 respondents from three secondary public schools in Davao Oriental, selected through stratified random sampling. The statistical tools used were weighted mean, standard deviation, and Pearson's r moment correlation. The study's findings revealed that the senior high school students' English language exposure in terms of home, friends, school, and social media is at a moderate level. It also found that learning English, in terms of improving the general level of English, including vocabulary learning, studying grammar, reading in English, writing in English, and speaking in English, has a high level. Furthermore, the senior high school students' oral performances, in terms of grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and pronunciation, are at a high level. Moreover, the correlation between English language exposure, English language learning, and oral performances is not significant. Therefore, no correlation is found between English language exposure and the oral performances of senior high school students, nor between the learning of English and the oral performances of senior high school students.