English Language Proficiency of Second Year Students
CHAPTER 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
Language is the medium of communications and mechanism for social interaction. It is a vehicle of expression of thoughts, concepts, principles and cultural orientation. In fact, it is the most indispensable element of culture. It is never possible to understand the vitalities or components, as well as idiosyncrasies of another culture without its medium structure and medium of communication. The English language as a dynamic medium of communication and second language of Filipinos is highly indispensable especially to some adults and to many students. It is also a discipline most tertiary students choose to major and teach not only in our own Philippine educational institutions but also in schools around the world. It now surfaces that English is likened to a basic commodity which non English speaking men and women across countries want to acquire as another linguistic system as it has become the most pressing international language not only of trade and commerce, computer technology, and the only way by which lasting peace, justice, and alliance maybe socio-culturally, politically, and economically harbored. It is a necessity that is now significantly considered a prime element needed in transmitting and acquiring information demanded by the recently advocated economy for sustainable development. The established set of measure of proficiency of learners to communicate across all macro-skills- listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing- is founded from adequate or substantial knowledge of the language areas. Since communication necessitates insightful and dynamic expression of thoughts, this study is geared towards the direction of finding specific degrees of English language mastery of freshmen and sophomore students in terms of their grammatical competence or understanding of the linguistic codes within the target language.
Statement of the Problem
This study attempts to ascertain the level of
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
Language is the medium of communications and mechanism for social interaction. It is a vehicle of expression of thoughts, concepts, principles and cultural orientation. In fact, it is the most indispensable element of culture. It is never possible to understand the vitalities or components, as well as idiosyncrasies of another culture without its medium structure and medium of communication. The English language as a dynamic medium of communication and second language of Filipinos is highly indispensable especially to some adults and to many students. It is also a discipline most tertiary students choose to major and teach not only in our own Philippine educational institutions but also in schools around the world. It now surfaces that English is likened to a basic commodity which non English speaking men and women across countries want to acquire as another linguistic system as it has become the most pressing international language not only of trade and commerce, computer technology, and the only way by which lasting peace, justice, and alliance maybe socio-culturally, politically, and economically harbored. It is a necessity that is now significantly considered a prime element needed in transmitting and acquiring information demanded by the recently advocated economy for sustainable development. The established set of measure of proficiency of learners to communicate across all macro-skills- listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing- is founded from adequate or substantial knowledge of the language areas. Since communication necessitates insightful and dynamic expression of thoughts, this study is geared towards the direction of finding specific degrees of English language mastery of freshmen and sophomore students in terms of their grammatical competence or understanding of the linguistic codes within the target language.
Statement of the Problem
This study attempts to ascertain the level of