Authors:

Jagdish Joshi, Getachew Mihret

Abstract:

The ultimate goal of this project was to carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover influences which affect students’ practice of speaking skills in Ankesha Senior Secondary and Preparatory School, Ethiopia: focus on 9th grade. The researcher focused primarily on factors related to teachers and students such as elements related to student roles, classrooms and teaching materials. Based on the objectives, the researcher used various devices so as to gather data for the success of this paper project. Those were class observations, student and teacher surveys, and interviews. The data was categorized and descriptively evaluated. The researcher had the population of 487, 9 grade students. Among those populations, the researcher selected 220 samples by using Tare Yamani (1967) sample size calculation formula. The results showed that the inappropriate abilities of speaking skills, techniques and procedures were implemented in the class where this research was conducted. The researcher observed while teachers taught speaking in a backward manner, with a focus mostly on students' reading comprehension. Updated and currently needed ways of teaching the skill were not applied in the classrooms as the researcher’s findings vividly displayed. The curriculum of education in Ethiopia encourages student centered approach of learning. However, as the reports of findings and observation of the researcher, the teacher dominated full time of the class. The necessary speaking skill improvement activities of the students such as, oral practices, pair or group discussions, interviews each other, dialogues or conversations were not implemented. The spoon feeding way of teaching and learning approach was applied. Instead of the teacher covering the whole class, it should have been better to make the students autonomous learners. Improper speaking has resulted in poor student speaking performance. To this end, this research paper makes recommendations that may change the ways or methods of teaching the skill of speaking at the research conducted class level (grade 9). It showed the right path to implement modern techniques how to teach and learn speaking skills in English classrooms. After all, the findings of this research paper may undoubtedly enable to inspire educational curriculum designers how to design and prepare the contents of the speaking skills for their students.  

Keywords:

Factors, Speaking Skill, Role(s), Actual Roles  

Vol & Issue:

VOL.16, ISSUE No.2, June 2024