Images of Translocality of EFL Learners within an ELT Hybrid Modality

Abstract

This study examines the thought processes of English as a First Language (EFL) learners as they complete their grades 11 and 12 at identified senior high schools in the province of Cavite, the Philippines.  It attempts to describe the communication situations EFL learners engage in with their Filipino teachers and classmates in an Oral Communication class. The first phase of the study covers the recording of their thought processes through diary logs and open-ended questionnaires.  Their reflections were then subsequently coded and interpreted using Content Analysis.  Results arrived to reveal three (3) dominant themes bearing six (6) categories of each projecting subcategories that further describe the challenges EFL learners face as they operate within the context of translocality, all in the hope of completing senior high school in the Philippines. Anchored on the intent that this will strategically prepare them for completing a college degree in their parents’ country of origin where education is relatively cheaper, EFL learners seem to suppose that the communication situations they engage in specifically in an Oral Communication class have remarkably displaced them despite the assumption that they have already acquired optimum ability in Spoken English.