Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Factors that Explain Discrepancies Between Competence and Performance of Online English Teacher

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to understand how linguistic and non-linguistic factors explain and predict the discrepancy between language compétence and language performance, as defined by Noam Chomsky. This research used a mixed-methods approach, gathering quantitative and qualitative data on the lactors affecting the second language acquisition of the participants, which include Interlanguage, L2 input, Language Aptitude, Age, Motivation, Attitude, Leaming Stratégies, and Education Culture. The study invoh/ed 31 Filipino online English teachers with discrepancies in their compétence and performance results using standard language assessment tools. It revealed that L1 interférence, poor 12 input in their households, low language aptitude, lack of practice during the Critical Period of Language Acquisition, being instrumentally motivated, use of indirect leaming stratégies, and limited experience with the Communicative Language Teaching approach ail contribute to this gap between compétence and performance. Motivation and Leaming Stratégies were aiso proven to be predictors of the discrepancy. This has provided us with an approximate leaming profile of second language leamers who are likely to manifest compétence and performance discrepancies, making early intervention possible to rectily this gap.