Abstract:
This study investigating factors affecting the practice of teaching speaking skills in Edaga-hamus
comprehensive secondary school with particular reference to grade 10 students. For this reason,
the study incorporated 106 students . It included two English language teachers. As the students
of grade 10 purposive sampling techniques was employed. To collect data, structured interview
for 2 English language teachers purposively and were employed. Classroom observation was also
employed .The data gathered through questionnaires were described by using frequency and
percentage. On the other hand, the data which were collected through classroom observation and
interviews were described qualitatively and data from the instruments were triangulated to bring
about reliability of the findings. The result suggested that learners take no practice repeatedly in
the performance of oral communication in the classroom. The main factors are: Improper
implementation of the syllabus by teachers, lack of students’ self-expression, teacher-centered
method, lack of motivation, tasks in the text book are difficult with the levels of the students, poor
of students’ interest, poor background knowledge of the students, lack of supportive authentic
materials (Newspaper or news letters and magazines), lack of self-confidence, frustration of
making of mistakes, teachers typically emphasizing on grammar rules and accuracy highly than
fluency, shyness of students in front of the stage and students mainly concentrated on exam result.
Based on the data collected from the respondents, the findings of the study recommends teachers
should adopt speaking activities and tasks to make them suitable for group or pair discussions
with authentic materials as teaching aid.Teachers should give equal opportunity for the students
to participate actively in teaching speaking and exams should ask not only grammar rules but also
speaking ability of students in English language for practicing and developing speaking skill.
Teachers should design their lessons and activities to improve student centered method.
