This study aimed to investigate the factors that influence effective speaking of English as a foreign language (EFL) in higher education. Data were collected through an open-ended, in-depth interview with seven interviewees and analyzed using thematic analysis (TA) technique. The results showed six significant themes related student speaking: aptitude, motivation, opportunity, learning media, s...

Speaking for Transactional Functions as a course in English foreign language learning curriculum is essentially needed. This class provides students beneficial activities the speaking skills development and give them lot of experiences process beyond classroom working through project. study aims at describing students’ on transactional projects. Since this research describes condition that exis...

This article describes the development of speaking fluency through authentic oral production in a six-week action research study public high school Guayaquil, Ecuador. The methodology included pre-test and post-test that measured quantitative aspects student’s spoken (speed, pauses, repetitions, corrections), survey with closed-ended questions collected learners’ perspectives towards their own ...

This research aimed to investigate how EFL students apply critical thinking in speaking activities and explore the levels of achieved by at e-COLINK Pontianak. The population this was advanced level 3 Pontianak with a total eight students. samples were selected using sampling technique. researcher applied type descriptive qualitative approach. techniques data collection used observation direct ...

The present study examined the acquisition of anaphora in English by Iranian EFL learners as well as Persian speaking children. To do so, the study was conducted in three phases. In the first phase, 40 intermediate female and male EFL learners were selected from Puyan Institute in Takestan, Iran. Then, an off-line based Grammatical Judgment Task was administered. In the second phase, 40 female ...