Factors Affecting EFL Learners’ English Pronunciation Competence and Oral Presentation Performance: A Study on Tertiary Level in Bangladesh

Laila Noor*

Abstract: The study was conducted to test the impact of factors on English pronunciation competence and oral presentation performance of the tertiary-level EFL learners in Bangladesh. The data was obtained from eighty students and thirty teachers from the departments of English in four Bangladeshi private and public universities. The experiment research was based on the survey of a self-developed Likert scale questionnaire and independent t-test. The results were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The independent t-test was statistically significant. Therefore, we rejected the null hypothesis. The independent t-test and the survey results showed a significant negative effect of factors on the ESL learners’ pronunciation competence and English oral performance. The findings call for further research regarding what methods and techniques can be used to develop learners’ pronunciation competence and English oral performance.

Keywords: Pronunciation competence, tertiary level, the EFL classroom, factors, background knowledge

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