SPEAKING HABITS OF THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL EFL LEARNERS: A SURVEY

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  • Md. Arif Khan Pathan Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejel.v9i4.5602

Kata Kunci:

speaking skills, speaking habits, EFL learners, undergraduate level

Abstrak

Speaking skills are the most important and dominant skills of a language that a language learner can never avoid or underestimate. From academic life to professional life, strong speaking skills help students in all aspects of their lives. Good speaking skills also act as indicators of knowing a language. In spite of knowing the importance of having strong speaking skills, unluckily, the majority of the EFL learners are found very weak and incompetent in speaking. The current study explored the speaking habits of undergraduate-level EFL learners through a five-point Likert-scale survey and found that the learners are very careless about practicing and improving their speaking skills. They have lots of opportunities and resources around them, but they do not utilize them to practice these skills. As a result, they could not develop good speaking habits in their everyday lives. 

 

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  • Md. Arif Khan Pathan, Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

    Md. Arif Khan Pathan is working as an associate professor of English at Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh. His academic and research interests include task-based language teaching, teaching grammar through games, developing teaching methods and materials, oral communication, phonetics, etc.

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2024-09-29

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Vol 9 No 4 (2024)

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