Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate EFL teachers’ practice and using techniques of
teaching speaking skills and challenges they face: the case of grade ten students at Seka
Secondary school. The study mainly focused to find out the practical implementations of
teachers’, students’ roles and challenges teachers face while practicing and using techniques
of teaching speaking skills in the classroom.
Descriptive research design was employed to establish the existence of phenomena by
explicitly describing them. All of grade ten English teachers and students involved in the
study.
The data were collected by using three tools: questionnaires, classroom observation and
interview. Random sampling techniques used to select students’ questionnaire and teachers’
interview. Data were analyzed by quantitative and qualitative methods. The results of data
gathered from questionnaire and classroom observations showed that, the practical
implementations of teachers’ role in practicing and using techniques of teaching speaking
skills in the classes were low. Additionally, from the results of interview analysis, teachers
did not create enough opportunities for the students to use English in their real life
communication.
According to the findings, the major challenges that affecting, practicing and using
techniques of teaching speaking skills in the classes were large number of students, shortage
of time, student’s poor ability and lack of interest while learning speaking skills. So, teachers
prefer using dialogues and instructions in teaching speaking skills in different classes instead
of interview, role play, debate, oral report and storytelling. Although number of challenges
that influence English teachers practicing and using technique of teaching speaking skills, it
was very relevant for students’ future oral proficiency. Therefore, based on the findings the
researcher recommended that practicing and using techniques of teaching speaking skills
were very important for the students to improve their proficiency in speaking English.
