The Importance Of Speaking English

Fluency remains the skill many of EFL students struggle to master. In other words, speaking English correctly, automatically, and confidently are significant elements to succeed in learning the language. In spite of the significance of speaking English fluently, we noticed that many EFL students who have good command over the language have a great deal of vocabulary, and have great scores in paper and pencil tests. Unfortunately, when they practice to speak the language, they can't speak well due to lots of inhibitions. They worry about speaking the language. Sometimes they can't even understand native speakers' speech. These are some issues faced by many EFL students who live in countries where the language is not commonly used.
On the other hand, the issue of speaking the language in countries where the language is used is better than non- speaking English countries. The EFL students who consistently listen to English language spoken in daily situations show remarkable success in listening and speaking skills. This would be why they improve greatly. Jie (2007), insisted that the students who are not native speakers, there are usually intervals between the perceptions of sounds by their ears and understanding the words, phrases and sentences. This kind of intervals often makes students have more trouble with their listening comprehension. So it is essential for them to have more chances to have contact with different kinds of listening materials and let their ears be familiar with different sounds of English words so as to shorten the intervals.
In addition, we all know that children learn a language easily by imitation and listening well to their parents or adults taking care of them. They can even speak tw...

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...ated articles and listening material in the site. It provides teachers with both the pdf document (tape script) and the listening material.
Bloomberg (2003), claimed that Listen to the news on the radio was a very good way to do extensive listening because these kind of material spoken by radio announcer, that report the news speak clearly, use good vocabulary, and also use idiomatic expressions. And he, declared that you can encourage EFL students to use computers to listen to news reports from National Public Radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation (NPR and the BBC). They can usually find a RealPlayer link to listen to news stories from both of these resources. However, listening to the radio will suffice as well. If they can it would be a good idea to record a ten to fifteen minute segment of a news show or any broadcast that might interest them.