Speaking difficulties

This research explores the difficulties encountered by non-English major students while getting ready for the VSTEP speaking test at a university in Vietnam. A total of fifty-two intermediate-level students, comprising 12 juniors and 40 seniors, took part in a survey evaluating their views on the test, challenges in preparation, and obstacles to performance.

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This study aimed to explore university students' perceptions of the difficulties they encountered while speaking English. With a mixed-method design, this research collected data through questionnaires administered to 290 university students and semi-structured interviews conducted with ten respondents.

16p visarada 28-04-2025 1 1   Download

When mentioning teaching and learning English at all levels of education in countries where English is classified as English as a Foreign Language, four principal skills – listening, speaking, reading, and writing – have been widely researched. Listening has long been recognized as a challenging skill for teachers, students, and researchers in non-English native language contexts.

8p vipanly 28-10-2024 4 2   Download

This article aims to find out the 2nd year non-English major students’ learning at National Academy of Public Administration towards the speaking skills in the textbook “Face2face, Pre-intermediate” with the focus on students’ difficulties, preferences and demands in learning speaking skill.

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This study aims to explore the difficulties and propose effective strategies for teaching English speaking skills to the first-year Students with Low English Proficiency (SLEP). Two questionnaires were designed to investigate the learning and teaching of English-speaking skills among 60 randomly selected students with weak English proficiency from different classes at Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI), along with 6 teachers who participated in the teaching.

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The reading comprehension skill is considered as one of the four fundamental language skills that an EFL learner must perform. Actually, it is not an easy skill since most of learners have many reading issues. The purpose of this present work is to investigate on these reading difficulties that grade 10 students at the Asian International Highschool face, and to identify their reading problems and the reasons behind their weaknesses in performing the reading task.

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With the important of speaking skills mentioned above, this study is researching the factors behind common speaking difficulties that face secondary school students at class 7/29 and 7/30 - The Asian International School (AHS) – Cao Thang Campus. Besides that, it seeks to investigate some effective solutions and teaching methods that teacher can apply in the lectures to solve students’ speaking difficulties, as well as improving theirs abilities in speaking English.

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Aims of the study: To point out some factors affecting students‟ motivation in speaking English; to give some suggestions for teachers to stimulate students in speaking English and overcome the difficulties they have to face with in teaching speaking English for grade 10 students.

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The study aims to explore the difficulties that the 10th grade ethnic minority students at Van hoa I High School have encountered when practicing English speaking skills and factors that cause these difficulties. Besides, it also seeks to find out the suggested solutions to improve the students’ speaking skills.

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Chapter 6 presents oral production tests. This chapter include contents as: Some difficulties in testing the speaking skills, reading aloud, conversational exchanges, using pictures for assessing oral production, the oral interview, some other techniques for oral examining,...

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The thesis aims to identify how students interest in learning speaking. The thesis, in ddition, aims to find out the effect of using role-play in speaking classes. Also, it is intended to find out difficulties from using role-play activities so that the researcher can suggest some solutions to these difficulties.

69p nickluvik123 03-07-2014 148 16   Download

The research aims to: Realize the reality of applying communicative activities in speaking classes of grade 11th students at Cao Lanh City high school – benefits and challenges; find out some solutions for difficulties in teaching and learning process; suggest some implications for practicing communicative activities.

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There aren’t still the exact criteria for measuring speaking skills as well as the weighting given to such components as correct pronunciation. The interdependence of the speaking and listening skill increases the difficulty of any serious attempt to analyze precisely what is being tested at one time. Administration is another difficulty as it is impossible to test a large number of students because of limited time involved

17p namson94 20-07-2012 113 18   Download

This paper aims to assess the present situation of English pronunciation students of Agriculture University in Hanoi and suggests some specific methods to improve students' pronunciation. Fact that most students are not interested in the pronunciation until they have trouble speaking English correctly and the difficulty in listening to English tapes. Furthermore, they only imitate others pronounce that they claim that they speak English better.

6p thulanh2 07-09-2011 141 18   Download