Variables of the speaking skills and their impact on higher secondary level students in Bangladesh: an exploratory study

Abstract

The goal of this study is to examine the factors influencing high school students' speaking abilities and their effects on learners. Speaking is regarded as one of the four language skills that are most important to master since it shows how fluent a person is in the target language. This study explores learners‘ variables that prevent them from enhancing their speaking abilities and also their impact on them. Moreover, it explores the perspectives of the instructors as well. The researcher selected both of the medium-level students of higher secondary level. Although the majority of the pupils are from Bangla medium in this study. In in order to clearly illustrate their views, the researcher selected students from both of the mediums. The researcher examined each student from both the Bangla and English mediums separately to obtain a variety of and deeper perceptions of the variables that are depriving learners for developing their speaking skill. Using a qualitative methodology, the researcher interviewed 16 people, including teachers and students, for information. 13 participants—13 students—and 3 participants—3 teachers—are all there. The 13 students come from six different institutions. In addition, the analysis part uses a number of questions categorized under different themes and emerging groupings to present the qualitative data. The results show that a variety of issues, including fewer opportunities to speak in English, differences in curriculum, lack of implementation of proper method, an inappropriate setting, inappropriate teaching strategies, and a lack of teaching methods, are to blame for pupils' poor speaking abilities. Furthermore, this study has looked at both the impact and the idea for a solution as well.