Assessing the Practice of Teaching Speaking Skills in EFL Classrooms Debre Tsige Secondary School in Focus.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Sime K.(PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Alemayehu Degefa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-26T07:45:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-26T07:45:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The main objective of the study is to assess the classroom practice of teaching speaking skill in EFL at Debre Tsige secondary school, especially in grade nine. The researcher focused mainly on the teachers’ roles, students’ roles, the techniques and procedures used by teachers, materials used to teach speaking skills, and major challenges that impact the practice of teaching speaking skill in the classroom.To gather information on the above main objectives various instrument were used. These are students’ questionnaire, classroom observations, teachers’ interview and students’ interview. The raw data to obtain through questionnaire, observation and interview were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative approach.The finding depicted that teachers were not used appropriate speaking techniques and procedure in the mentioned grade level. They didn’t provide enough opportunities for students to use English in real life communication. There has been little or no time give for the modern teaching speaking skills. Teachers had hardly seen in the classroom when they used techniques and activities that promote speaking lesson such as, discussion methods, oral report, role play, drama, debating, interview, simulation and playing different games. In addition, teachers’ roles in teaching speaking, students’ belief (interest) to practice speaking skills, large number of students, lack of motivation and shortage of provide appropriate amount of time for practice speaking lesson were major challenges that affecting the practice of teaching speaking skills. As the analysis indicated, consequences of the study teachers didn’t use appropriate speaking practice in the classroom. Students did not make an effort to practice speaking skill in real situation. Then, there was weak organization and little attention given for speaking lesson. To that end, this research paper provides recommendation that could bring about a change in practice of teaching and learning speaking in the grade level studied so that current techniques, procedure and approach of teaching speaking could be employed. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/3997 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.title | Assessing the Practice of Teaching Speaking Skills in EFL Classrooms Debre Tsige Secondary School in Focus. | |
| dc.type | Thesis |