1. Problems faced by students while
speaking English at intermediate
level in Pakistan
Prepared by
Ms. Rukhsana
TEFL Assignment
Code 5659
2. The Factors Causing these
Problems:
Bad Schooling
Unskilled Teachers
Grammar Translation method of Teaching
Impact of Mother Tongue
Role of Electronic Media (no educational programs)
Unmotivated Behavior of Teachers
No activities to promote speaking in the class.
3. Three kinds of speaking
situations
Interactive,
Partially interactive, and
Non-interactive
5. Clusters like “ough” has
many different sounds:
rough’ (raf)
‘plough’ (plow),
‘thought’ (thot),
‘drought’ (drot) and
‘naughty’ (naty).
6. The sign “OU” has seven
different vowels:
cloud (clowd), soul (sole),
touch (tuch), youth (yooth)
could (kud) bought (bot),
journey (jurni).
7. Long ‘e’ (ee) sound is also very
troublesome
me (mee), meet (meet),
meat (meat), field (feeld),
seize (seez), cease (seez),
police (poleece).
8. The silent letters are usually
baffling and rare in Urdu
Silent letters in English are found in all the
three positions.
Initial Position: *Psychology, *Psalm,
Medial Position: *Debt, *Calm,
Final Position: *Autumn, *Condemn
9. Hard and Soft sounds create
difficulties:
Letter ‘C’in Cat – hard sound.
Letter ‘C’ in Cinema – soft sound.
Letter ‘G’ in Get – hard sound.
Letter ‘G’ in Gem — soft sound.
10. Letters in English spellings do not
correspond with their sounds.
Long, short and broad sounds of vowels are
bewildering.
Short ‘a’ as in rat.
Long ‘a’ as in baby.
Broad ‘a’ as in father.
‘a’ with short ‘o’ sound: What (wot), Was (wos)
11. Contrasting patterns of the
sounds.
(au) sound = all (aul)
(aa) sound = Call
(caal)
(ei) sound = hate (heit)
13. Lack of Confidence
While speaking English most of
students feel shy owing to the lack
of confidence or have improper
knowledge of English Grammar or
Tenses etc.
14. Remedial Measures
Qualified teachers to recruited and further
provide them training sessions to enhance their
spoken English.
Students should practice speaking English and
correct pronunciation by watching movie etc.
Audio-lingual method of teaching must be
adopted in schools for better practice.
15. Cont.…..
Meaning of words must be explored by the
students so that they are learnt and
remembered better.
Providing the students such an atmosphere so
that they can practice speaking English.
English speaking clubs can be introduced so
that the students may communicate with each
other.