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CHAPTER І
Background and Purpose
1.1. Introduction
Speaking is the most demanding skill among English learners and over the past decades, increasing interest in different aspects of improving speaking ability has triggered a variety of investigations, and theoretical discussions that have shed light on improving this ability. Icebrekars will be used in this study to improve speaking ability in adult upper-intermediate EFL learners. Ice breaking means breaking the ice among learners and using ice breakers to encourage students to interact all together.
1.2. Statement of Problem
The lack of proper speaking activities to improve oral production in adult EFL students of upper-intermediate level, results in a poor performance when speaking. This project expects finding valuable information that contributes to overcome the problems adult EFL students of upper-intermediate level face when speaking in the target language in the classroom.
1.3. Theoretical Framework
Speaking skill is as crucial as any other language skills. Shumin (1997) states that learning to speak a foreign language requires more than knowing its grammar and vocabulary. Learners should acquire the skill through interaction with each other. However, it is difficult for EFL learners to speak appropriate English in the classroom because of the limited language use in their real lives.
Ice breakers are discussion questions or interaction activities used to help participants relax and ease in learning situation (Dover, 2004). The primary goal for an ice breaker is the development of an environment that is anxiety reducing and which allows individuals to "break the ice" or get acquainted by having fun.
Pillai (2007) mentions the purpose of ice b...

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3. To reduce the subject anxiety during the speaking, the examiner was the students' own teacher.

1.8. Outline of the Study
Chapter one provides a general introduction to the study. In this chapter the purpose of the study, research questions, hypotheses, and limitations of the study were discussed and key terms were defined. In chapter two, the researcher reviews the literature related to the theoretical and empirical background to speaking, ice-breakers, and their effects and functions. Chapter three deals with methodological issues such as participants, data collection, procedures, research questions and hypotheses, etc. Chapter four is concerned with data analysis and discussion of the results. In the final chapter we draw some conclusions from our analysis, discuss conclusive results, and provide implications for further research.

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