Investigating Grammatical Problems Encountered by Secondary School Students in Speaking English Language

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating grammatical problems encountered secondary school students in speaking English. The researcher used a practical approach to investigate the issue. The thesis includes some questions and hypotheses. The tool used to obtain data was an oral test for students they discussed and participated in each topic separately and they were thirty five students of Al Qabas Secondary School female and male students and they were chosen randomly to speak, and the researcher recorded all their speech to investigate the grammatical problems in spoken English. So the researcher chooses the first topic was about student early days at primary school and secondary school, to see how they use the tenses which mentioned by them. The second topic was about football students admire, the researcher meant to see students background of adjectives and adverbs, finally the last topic designed to investigate the use of propositions by speaking about the class room objects. Thus all the students' speech has been recorded and most of them spoke between 1-2 munities, so the researcher writes down some notices concerning students confidence, motivation and the physical expressions while they were talking. According to this study concluded with some findings and recommendations for students and teachers of English language.