Language Areas Difficulty of the College of Education Students of the University of San Jose-Recoletos:
A Basis for Remedial Instruction
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A Thesis Presented to the
Faculty of the College of Education
University of San Jose-Recoletos

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In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Degree of Bachelor in Secondary Education
Major in English

By:
Albino, Rey Jee
Dagunan, Maeflo
Fariolen, Amilou Ace
Saga, Alyanna Mae

S.Y. 2014-2015
CHAPTER 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE

Rationale

It is unquestionably that language plays a very important part in people’s learning process and of course, it can depict the line between excellence and mediocrity. Indeed, mastery of the field is needed and must be developed. Language, as a general thought has numerous definitions due to the fact that people would likely see things from various viewpoints. However, majority of the characterizations of language appears to be analogous with one another. Among the definitions, language is primarily a mental faculty that allows humans to undertake linguistic behavior: to learn languages and to produce and understand utterances (Haser and Fitch 2003). Furthermore, language is seen as a formal system of signs governed by grammatical rules of combination to communicate meaning (Trask, 2007). This definition stresses that human languages can be described as closed structural systems consisting of rules that relate particular signs to particular meanings. Subsequently, one can never really learn how to apply something if he/she was not able to understand deeply the different concepts and perplexity of language. Moreover, language areas include; English 1 which primarily focuses on the basic Grammar and Vocabulary, English 2 is about Writing in the Discipline and English 3 is on Speech and Oral Communication. In fact, nowadays,