Challenges of Teaching English Language Speaking Skills at the Secondary School Level in Pakistan: English Language Teachers’ Perspective
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14751347Keywords:
English Language in Pakistan, Speaking Skills, Teaching Speaking Skills, ESL, Secondary SchoolAbstract
Purpose: The current study investigates the challenges secondary school teachers face in teaching speaking skills to Pakistani ESL learners at the secondary school level.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study employs the qualitative research approach and includes seventeen English language teachers from five private sector secondary schools in Karachi. Data on teachers' experiences, challenges, and perspectives on teaching English language speaking skills were collected through an open-ended questionnaire after ensuring its self, pilot, and expert validity.
Findings: The findings reveal eight significant themes: motivation, Teaching-learning resources, speaking activities development, classroom size, time constraints, administration role, curriculum, and cultural and social values as major challenges.
Implications/Originality/Value: The study concludes with suggestions that the learners be motivated to participate in speaking activities, the classroom environment be made friendly, mistakes be tolerated, more authentic material for teaching speaking skills be used, English language listening activities be included in the classroom, more time be given to develop need-based speaking activities, and speaking skills be made part of summative assessment.
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