Investigating University Students' Problems in Oral Communication

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the problems of oral communication that encounter university students at Sudan University. The researchers used the descriptive analytic method. A questionnaire was distributed to fifty teachers of English language and oral test for 20 students. Having collected the data and analyzed it statistically using SPSS package, the research comes up to the following findings: University teachers use mother tongue more than the foreign language, students do not participate in oral communication due to psychological problems such as shyness and lack of self- confidence also teaching methodology not appropriate enough to encourage students. The researchers recommend that teachers should be familiar with so many activities and techniques to help learners to get rid of negative psychological factors by motivating and encouraging them to speak English language. Also they shouldn’t have to use mother tongue inside the classroom.