FACTORS INFLUENCING THE ATTITUDES TOWARDS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING AMONG SECOND YEAR

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION STUDENTS MAJOR
IN ENGLISH OF NUEVA VIZCAYA STATE UNIVERSITY
BAMBANG CAMPUS

Mary Fe Joy M. Corcuera / Gwyneth Denice B. De Leon

Veronica S. Dumanop / Allysa Kate R. Gambol / Gladys D. Ganceña
RESEARCHERS
Research Agenda
Project Activities

Instruction and curriculum  Classroom management

development  Pedagogical competence
and management of learning
 Curriculum enhancement
and development
 Assessment and evaluation
of Learning
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
English language was introduced by the
Americans. About 600 teachers travelled from the United
States to the occupied Philippine territory, these teachers
were then called Thomasites. The teachers established a
new educational system to teach basic education and to
train Filipino teachers using the English language as their
medium of instruction. In the year 1972 English language
has been declared to be one of the official languages in
the Philippines.
Background of the Study

There are many factors that influence students’

attitudes to learn English. These factors serve as
motivation, inspiration, or even as a standard. Studying
the language itself is not enough for an individual to
fully master ‘that specific language’. One needs to be
exposed to a place where that ‘specific language’ is
being used on daily basis.
Background of the Study

According to Ahmed (2015), students from

various fields have differing attitudes toward English
language learning in terms of usage domains and
learning skills focus, demonstrating that a single
curriculum or teaching methodology is inadequate.
The learners' attitude is critical in maximizing
learning and teaching output in the changing scenario of
language teaching theories and methodologies, where
the learners, rather than the teachers, are gaining a
central position.
Background of the Study

Conducting the research on Factors Influencing

the attitudes towards English Language Learning
Among Second Year College of Teacher Education
Major in English Students of Nueva Vizcaya State
University- Bambang campus helps the students,
mentors, and researchers know the attitudes of each
student in mastering and understanding the uses of the
language’s structure. From this research, one can find
their answer on their struggle of learning the English
language.
Statement of the Problem
1. What is the respondents’ perception on their motivation,
personality, experience and native language as factors influencing
their attitudes towards English language learning?

2. What is the respondents’ perception on their attitudes towards

English language learning?

3. Do the respondents’ perception on their motivation,

personality, experience, and native language and their attitudes
towards English language learning relate significantly?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Research Design
Research Design
Research Method

A descriptive correlational method will be used

by employing a questionnaire in gathering data to
describe the factors and its relationship with the
attitudes towards English language learning of the
respondents.
Respondents of the Study
In this research study, the respondents were
selected following the purposive technique under non-
probability sampling.
34 second-year English major students enrolled at
the College of Teacher Education (CTE) at Nueva
Vizcaya State University (NVSU)-Bambang campus
during the second semester of the academic year 2021-
2022 served as respondents.
Data Gathering Procedure
Research Instruments
The researchers will use a survey questionnaire
to gather the data using Likert Scale to measure the
indicators per factors influencing the attitudes towards
the English language learning of the respondents. The
questionnaire will contain the indicators on the factors
such as the motivation, personality, experience, and
native language while the second part will be all about
the respondents’ attitudes towards English language
learning.
Research Instruments

The questionnaire on Motivation was format of

Gardner’s Attitude/ Motivation Test Battery where in
the five items present the instrumental motivation. For
our personality factor, this research study utilizes the
Big Five factor model of Personality traits in an effort to
accurately measure the respondents’ personality. The
Big Five factor model of personality type builds on the
works of Raymond Cattell, and Hans Eysenck based on
Goldberg’s five dimension personality model.
Research Instruments

On the other hand Experience factor was

adopted from the Attitude Questionnaire Test
employed by Boonrangsri, Chuaymankhong,
Rermyindee, and Vongchittpinyo (2004). While the
design of the administered questionnaire for the
factor Native Language conforms to the accepted
standards (Dornyei, 2010). In this study, the same
questionnaire was administered as used by other
researchers (Kavaliauskiene, Kaminskiene, 2007).
Statistical Tools
Mean. This will be utilized to answer the question; How do
the respondents perceive motivation, personality,
experience, and native language as factors influencing their
English language learning.

Standard Deviation. This will measure the length between

the factors indicator and its mean score.

Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient. This will be used to

identify the significant relationship between the factors and
the attitude towards English language learning of the
respondents.
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