Students’ and Teachers’ Role in Enhancing Grade 10 Students’ English Speaking Skills
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2024-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to study the Students 'and Teachers' Role in Enhancing the Students' Speaking skills: a case of grade 10 Students at Bole community and Andode Secondary Schools. To achieve the intended goal, an exploratory sequential mixed methods design was employed in the study. Participants of the study were 10 English teachers who were selected using voluntary sampling and 180 students selected using simple random sampling. The data collection tools used in the study were a questionnaire, observation, interview, and focus group discussion. The interview and observation were conducted with teachers who were selected using voluntary sampling. The observation was made at the four teachers who were selected for interview to assess the role teachers are playing in helping students learn to speak better in the classrooms. Then an interview was conducted with the teachers. The questionnaire was filled by 180 student respondents who were selected by random sampling. Moreover, a focus group discussion was conducted with five student respondents who were selected with voluntary sampling. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and explained in relation to the conceptual framework. Next, the qualitative data were analyzed. In this section, the analysis was done based on the themes obtained from the research questions. In addition, the discussion of the data was made by mixing both the quantitative and qualitative data. The findings of the study indicated that teachers and students were the main characters in enhancing the students' speaking skills. However, both teachers and students were not playing their role well or they were performing below expected in ELT speaking class. In addition, the way teachers teach speaking in ELT class is not good enough for improving the students' language skills. Finally, the study recommended that English teachers should improve their teaching of speaking and they have to go to classrooms having the kind of activity that lets students practice speaking. Like their teachers students also have responsibilities for their learning so that they have to make themselves ready to pass through what it takes to enhance their learning of speaking.
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Speaking skills