Nasser Omer M. Al-Tamimi, Nabil Khadher Muhsen Abudllah & Wagdi Rashad Ali Bin-Hady
الملخص الانجليزي
: This study aimed at exploring Yemeni EFL students' perceived problems of
speaking and enhancing their speaking performance using task-based instruction strategy. It
followed a quasi-experimental research design to check the degree of enhancement in the
students' speaking skills, and a qualitative design to check students' problems in speaking. To
ensure effective use of strategic teaching, the researchers considered students' needs and
motivation by involving them in an interview about the problems they face when communicating
in English. Non-probabilistic convenience sampling was used in the present study. The sample
consisted of 20 first-year college students at Socotra Faculty of Education, Hadhramout
University, Yemen, in the academic year of 2018-2019. The findings revealed that students face
many speaking problems pertaining to knowledge of phonology, vocabulary, grammar and
problems of sustaining the oral interaction, as well as psychology -related problems. The
analysis of data collected, using paired sample t-test, indicates a significant improvement has
taken place in students' speaking skill compared to the pre-test and the post-test performance
with t-value of 5.349 and p. value =.000,<. 0.005, with effect size of (ES = .53). Based on the
findings, the study recommends that EFL teachers focus on the problems reported by students
whenever they want to develop their students' communicative competence.
د.وجدي رشاد علي بن هادي | Wagdi Rashad Ali Bin-Hady | 934