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 researcher used the descriptive analytic methods. A questionnaire was distributed to fifty teachers of English language and oral test for 20 students. Having collected the data and analyzed it statistically by means of the SPSS package, the researcher 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 student. The researcher 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 shouldn’t have to use mother tongue more inside the classroom.