Investigating Weakness of Speaking Skill at Sudanese University Students

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to investigate the deficiency of speaking skills among university students. The study has adopted the descriptive analytical approach in collecting and analyzing the data. The sample of the study consisted of (30) students at Sinnar university who study English as a foreign language and (10) teachers at the department of English. The researcher designed interview and questionnaire for the students and teachers respectively the data were analyzed by using statistical program (SPSS) which provides presented Results for the Questioner and interview. The study has reached into some findings, the most important ones is as follows: Grammatical knowledge has great relationship with fluency, whenever students possess good grammar they speak fluently. The lack of language laboratories at universities has a big impact on the weakness of communication in English among students. Speaking is much practical skill rather than theoretical. The researcher recommends the following: 1- Teachers need to be sure that students are exposed to English language by using language laboratories. 2- Teachers must be aware of input skills to enable students to master output skills and speaking is one of these output skills students need to master before graduating. 3- Students need to know the importance of grammar knowledge in mastering speaking skill. And this can be done through commenting on students' speech where they commit the errors.