Investigating Teachers Views on the Difficulties Encountered by Students in Using Communication Strategies to Develop Oral Skill

Abstract

This study aims at investigating difficulties encountered by students in using communication strategies to develop oral skill. The researcher adopted the descriptive method for data analysis. One instrument is used as a primary tool for data collection. Namely, (a questionnaire to 40 teachers of English language) at some Sudanese universities. The researcher uses the simple random sampling to select the sample of the study. The result of this study reveal that, fluency oriented strategies are useful for students in developing oral skill, whereas accuracy—oriented strategies are applied by students to improve oral skill further more using message, reduction and alteration strategy can positively encourage students to enhance oral communication; Moreover, instructors are not helpful to direct students to use nonverbal communication so as to guess the intended meaning an addition to that the instructors are not able to encourage ,students to pay attention to the general information contained in speech. Based on the findings mentioned above the researcher recommends that, students communication strategies, Instructors in Sudan should be recommended to develop student’s language skills and give more attention to the communication strategies. Teachers should adopt lively topics for discussion to motivate students. The use of realia by teachers should encourage students to speak fluency.