NVESTIGATING FACTORS AFFECTING THE PRACTICE OF TEACHING SPEAKING SKILL WITH REFERENCE GRADE 10 STUDENTS IN EDAGA -HAMUS COMPREHENSIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL

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.