Constraints in Spoken Proficiency: Causes and Remedial Measures

Yıl 2017, Cilt: 3 Sayı: 2, 23 - 42, 25.09.2017

Shantha Sambath Mekala Sethuraman

https://doi.org/10.32601/ejal.460955

Öz

Spoken proficiency in English has become indispensable in engineering industry. It is expected of an
engineering student to possess requisite spoken proficiency for his/her career growth prospects. The
paper focuses on the impediments in the speaking skills of the engineering students and also finds the
ways to improve students’ speaking skills using task-based pedagogical design. The article further
investigates the factors that affect the speaking performance of the ESL learners. This article explores
the pivotal role played by the pedagogical intervention in the classroom in enabling the learners to
overcome the constraints in speaking. The participants of the study chosen for control and experimental
group were first year civil engineering students comprising 38 in each group respectively. T-test was
used to compare the performance of the students in control and experiment groups. The cross tabulation
was also computed to know the scoring pattern of the spoken components in the assigned tasks. The
results revealed that there was a significant level of improvement in the oral proficiency of the
experimental group. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

Affective factors, engineering students, oral communicative tasks, speaking constraints, spoken proficiency

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