The present research work with the topic "EFL Students’ Difficulties in Speaking” is a descriptive study, qualitative and quantitative data are analyzed to know the perspectives of the 55 participating students. Two sections were divided into the survey, the first for linguistic data and the second for speech problems; a Google Form survey was applied as an instrument, with a reliability value of 0.912 for Cronbach's alpha. It is concluded that psychological factors impair students' performan...

The development of productive skills, writing and speaking, have been the core when learning and teaching a foreign language since they demonstrate that a speaker can use a language in different contexts and situations. However, this is a hard task into the Ecuadorian classrooms and into the institute levels as well. The students´ English proficiency continue being poor. Education First (2019) stated that Ecuador ranked the 81st position out of a total of 100 countries. This ranking was stab...

English is considered one of the major languages in the world, and the productive skill of speaking is the most challenging and demanding for EFL learners. This descriptive study addresses the significant difficulties students from eighth, ninth, and tenth graders from an Ecuadorian private Institution face when speaking English. The study collected qualitative and quantitative data through a survey of 76 participants aged 12 to 15. The results demonstrated that students are in trouble with s...

This study aimed to improve Students' Ability to Write Opinions using Picture Prompts and Peer Feedback. The study was conducted on 42 university students at the B1 level English module in semester II - 2021 to 2022. The students carried out different activities to increase their writing skills during 16 hours of class. An action research was conducted using quantitative and qualitative instruments to get the data. The study used a Pre and Post-test, a questionnaire, and rubrics. After collec...

English is considered the essential tool in many countries to interact with each other in different contexts. Learning English allows the users to contact in diverse áreas where communication is crucial to different skills, such as speaking, listening, reading, or writing, which are widely applied in global information exchanging. However, in the transactional and business field, writing skills are vastly used, but in many cases, it is a significant challenge for learners (Buragohain & Wahdan...

Communication is essential for human beings, since, thanks to it, we can express what we feel or need. In addition, it is very important within society and thus people are able to integrate and relate in a world full of different cultures. Therefore, learning to speak English is a boundless challenge for students. This descriptive study was conducted in the city of Cuenca through a survey sent in Google Forms. Items in the survey had a Likert scale, which was applied to 70 students. The resul...

The purpose of this descriptive research was to identify how difficult it was for learners to speak in English. This research was conducted in Cuenca, Ecuador, at a public high school. Quantitative and qualitative data were examined in this research. A survey was applied to collect data from 50 students between the ages of 15 and 18 years old. They were in the first and second years. The survey included statements that examined students' challenges, activities, and attitudes on pair work in s...

The present study is a descriptive research and quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed to answer questions and to get deep information about students’ difficulties in speaking. This skill could be a big challenge for most of students and teachers. In addition, this research was carried out in a Higher Education Institute in Riobamba city. The results were obtained through an online survey and the results were tabulated and ordered in the SPSS program to obtain descriptive statistic...

This study aimed to improve students' ability to write opinions using picture prompts and peer feedback. The research was developed with 37 university students in the B1 English module in semester II - 2021 to 2022. They did different activities to increase their writing skills during 16 online hours of class. An action research was conducted using quantitative and qualitative instruments to get the data; including a pre and post-test, a questionnaire, and rubrics. The results indicated that ...

EFL students have faced obstacles when learning the English language, especially the speaking skill, which demands more merits. This research study is focused on the difficulties that 8th, 9th, and 10th graders find when using English to communicate. The students in this project belong to a private high school in Ecuador. A survey was applied to 76 participants to collect data. The results demonstrated that students strive to communicate orally in English due to insufficient vocabulary knowle...

Due to the quarantine decreed by the central government and the suspension of face-to-face classes in the different schools in the country, the way of evaluating students changed in many ways. Education has been completely transformed with respect to the use of virtual tools to carry out the teaching-learning process. The Minister of Education Monserrat Creamer (2019), who stated that in Ecuador 3 out of 10 students have serious connectivity problems and do not have digital devices for their ...