Importance Of Speaking Skills In English

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Communication skills play a vital role in present day world. Among these, speaking skill is a major skill. Most of the graduates from rural Telangana are not very good at speaking skills as they study in local medium of instruction. This gap can be fulfilled when there is a change in methodology of teaching English. Task based language teaching could be used to enhance these skills as TBLT creates a positive environment among the students and promotes language enhancement.
This paper primarily talks about the need of speaking skills in Rural Telangana graduates and secondarily, it advocates how TBLT activities can be used in language teaching to grow their skills.
Introduction:
In this globalization, the language ‘English’ plays a significant
The ability to communicate in a second language clearly and efficiently contributes to the success of the learner in school and their success later in every phase of life. Therefore, speaking class should have more portions. It means that the teacher have to give time as much as possible for the students to speak. English speaking class should be developed through various controlled conversations.
Therefore, language training should aim at designing the Task-based Speaking Activities as “supplementary material” to develop speaking skills and build confidence in them to face the competition.
Review of Related Literature
According to Oxford Advanced Dictionary the definition of speaking is: “to express or communicate opinions, feelings, ideas, etc., by or as talking it involves the activities in the part of the speaker as psychological (articulator) and physical (acoustic) stages.” Or “speaking is to make use of language in an ordinary, not singing, to state view, wishes etc. or an act of spokesman”.
Penny Ur (1996:120) in her definition on speaking states: “Speaking is the most important skill since people who know a language are referred as “the speaker” of a language. In addition, speaking is the ability that includes all other kinds of knowing. The productive skill in the aural

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