The Socio-cultural Factors Impact on EFL Learners’ Oral Performance Case Study: 4th Year Ms

Abstract

The present thesis is a total of three chapters aiming to investigate the socio-cultural background of 4MS pupils in speaking English. The social cultural background of the pupils is at the very core of this study and thus success factors of speaking EFL are examined from a socio-cultural vantage. The process of socialisation therefore plays a very important role in shaping the learner‟s own experience in different fields, especially in that of foreign language speaking. It starts at home and extends to later stages of life, as the individual steps out to the world of peers in the neighbourhood and at School. So in all these social institutions, the learner is exposed to a lot of experiences that might affect his or her performance either positively or negatively. First of all, at home, the family‟s economic and educational status affects the socialisation of the learner through preparing him from the early days of childhood to meet the expectations of school life. In our case, improving his oral performance mainly in English. Besides, the impact of the surrounding environment and school is primary important since it is there where young yearners pick up more and more social and cultural views that can enhance their oral performance. Through a questionnaire administered to 65 pupils, this work has been conducted. The results of this study shows that pupils living in culturally and economically impoverished environments have a bad oral performance in English. This failure is not only due to the family but also a host of factors such as the neighbourhood as well