Importance of Speaking Interactive Activities in Developing Speaking Skills

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the importance of speaking interactive activities in developing speaking for Sudanese secondary school learners. The researcher hypothesizesthat;the proper interactive activities will help to develop speaking skill; as well as laboratories will help to develop students' abilities to speak English fluently. The study is very important for students, teachers and syllabus designers, because it deals with speaking interactive activities to develop speaking skillsfaced by secondary school levels who study English as the foreign language. The descriptive method has been adopted in this researchand the data will be obtained by using a questionnaire for the learners as a tool for data collection.The total population of the study is about three hundred secondary school learnersand the sample that has been chosen from them is ninety nine students who participated in this study.The findings of this study show that,Listening and speaking are neglected by teachers. There are no enough educational interactive activities for the students to practice English.Lack of language lab affectsnegatively indeveloping speaking skill.Finally, the researcher recommended that, teachers should concentrate on listening and speaking skills because, these skills play fundamental role in language communication.Teachers should focus on various interactive activities and involve students in communicative activities rather than vocabulary building.