The effective techniques in teaching speaking

The purpose of this study is to investigate how effective the methods ofteaching speaking are, and how successful the students are in speaking English. Andalso this study aims to find out the role of the language teacher in teaching speaking.The participants in the sample group of this study were intermediate levelundergraduate preparatory program students at the School of Foreign Languages atDEU and EU.The data were obtained by two instruments, a questionnaire and oralinterview. The questionnaires were distributed to 229 students from DEU and 195students from EU. In oral interview, 40 students participated.The data analysis conducted by means of frequency, mean and percentagerevealed that the students are unsuccessful in speaking English although they arehighly eager for having this skill. High anxiety level is an important factor in thisfailure. The findings of oral interview demonstrated that the students only feelthemselves not irritated while playing games.The techniques and the methods used in teaching speaking in English assistlearning this skill positively but it is confirmed that this is not enough.The attitudes, manners and behaviour of the language teachers who teachspeaking English to the language learners are appreciated by the students; however,this does not change the reality that they are unsuccessful in speaking English.