Abstract

Author:
Gianne Audrey T. Gutierrez, Joseph Christian P. Gesmundo

Doi: 10.26480/wllcs.01.2023.20.22

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The study briefly investigated the communicative language competence and English language usage of Junior High School learners (JHS) of San Pablo Colleges. The study is considered essential to help language teachers cultivate and enhance students’ communicative competence in order to ensure maximum participation and use of the target language despite the current situation in which students may approach speaking as a means of settling social disputes and forging relationships with others in the near future. Communicative language competence focused on areas such as grammar competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence while English language usage focused on the extent of usage at home, in different platforms, and in the community. A descriptive quantitative research design was employed in the study which was participated by all JHS learners of San Pablo Colleges through complete enumeration. The JHS learners exhibits a positive result in the Communicative Language Competence. They were found to be advanced in grammar and sociolinguistic competence. While in language usage, the students were found to often use the English language in areas such as: at home, in the different platforms, and in the community. Therefore, it was found that there is a moderate positive competence between the Communicative Language Competence and English Language Usage. It implies that learners are able to speak fluently and accurately and are able to exhibit an advanced foundation of the Prosodic features of speech, and vocabulary.