Factors Affecting Students Level of Proficiency in English / Flores, Maria Blesilda Suelto.

ABSTRACT The study focused on the factors affecting sophomore students' level of proficiency in English during the academic year 2006-2007 Specifically, the study conducted an inquiry on the effect of the student-related factors in terms of attitude towards English, parents' educational attainment, language immersion, and type of high school graduated from: faculty-related factors in terms of the teaching methods and techniques and type of evaluative measures, and university-related factors in terms of availability, adequacy, functionability and usability of reference materials, instructional materials and equipment and class size to the students' level of proficiency in English in terms listening, speaking, reading, and writing and students' overall level of English proficiency.