AN INVESTIGATION INTO DIFFICULTIES IN ENGLISH SPEAKING PROFICIENCY OF NON-ENGLISH MAJORED FRESHMEN AT TRA VINH UNIVERSITY, VIETNAM

Vi Tuong Thi Hua, Thuy Thu Thi Huynh

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Speaking skills are identified as an essential and necessary skill in the process of learning foreign languages in general and English in particular. However, not all learners realize the importance of English speaking skills and actively practice them. The study aims to explore difficulties in speaking proficiency of 60 non-English majored freshmen at Tra Vinh University through a questionnaire to collect data surveying learners' opinions. The tool utilized in this study is an eighteen-question questionnaire that focuses on the difficulties of students in learning English speaking. Questions will be distributed to each student to investigate the factors affecting difficulty in speaking English. The survey results showed the students' difficulties in English speaking and proposed some valuable activities to practice after class to improve students' speaking ability.

 

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difficulties, freshmen, investigation, non-English majored, speaking proficiency

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