Problems in Speaking |n the Classroom

Education English | Problems in Speaking | There are such problems activities in the classroom, according  Ur (1996) explained problems in speaking activities are :

1) Inhibition
Unlike reading, writing and listening activities, speaking requires some degree of real time exposure to an audience. Learners are often inhibited about trying to say things in a foreign language in the classroom :worried about making mistakes, fearful criticism or losing face, or simply shy of the attention that their speech attracts.

2) Nothing to say
Even if they are not inhibited, you often hear learners complain that they cannot think of anything to say: they have no motive to express themselves beyond the guilty feeling that they should be speaking.

3) Low or uneven participation
Only one participant can talk at a time if he or she is to be heard ; and in a large group this means that each one will have only very little talking time. This problems is compounded by the tendency of some learners to dominate, while other speakers very little or not at all.

4) Mother tongue use
In classes where all, or a number of, the learners share the same mother tongue, they may tend to use it : because it is easier, because it feels unnatural to speak to one another in a foreign language and because they feel less exposed if they are speaking their mother tongue. If they are talking in small groups it can be quite difficult to get some classes-particularly the less discplined or motivated ones-to keep to the target language.