Concepts of Sociolinguistic Competence

Fig. 1 Paradigm Showing the Relationship between Profile Variables of the Respondents and their Sociolinguistic Competence-Variable
Research Methodology
Research Design
This study employed a descriptive and a correlational research. Descriptive research is a study designed to depict the participants in an accurate way. More simply put, descriptive research is all about describing people who take part in the study. Thus, this study is a descriptive research for its attempts to make a survey on several levels of the profile of the respondents as well as a survey and description of the status of their sociolinguistic competence. .
Moreover, this study also hinges on the correlational method which characterizes the status of relationship between variables. The use of correlation in this study is justified in the interest of one of the questions presupposed in the research problem that requires associating two sets of variables, to wit: the profile-variables of the respondents and their sociolinguistic competence-variable in an attempt to determine the degree at which a significant relationship can be established and which shall be the basis for further interpretation. ⁵
As the final phase of this study’s analysis, it is ultimately interested to find out if any of the profile variables is significantly related to the respondents’ sociolinguistic competence. The findings therefrom can be used as a baseline data in the formulation of a potential instructional intervention or the upgrading of instructional designs or in the development of an instructional material and which may take upon the merits of the findings of this study as guidelines in further improving the agency of these various educational mechanisms in the advancement of students’ multi-faceted competence in the English language, which includes sociolinguistic competence for that matter. This study, however, makes no further attempt to recommend a concrete output that may amount to such instructional programs or projects as these may be taken up as a separate future research which may draw from the merits of the findings of this study.