Speaking Case Study

Speaking is an active and productive skill is become most people’s interest these days. Speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing, receiving, and processing information (Brown, 2001; Burns & Joyce, 1997). People who know a language, referred to the speakers of that language. As if learning speaking means learning other skills of a language, most foreign language learners interested in learning to speak(Ur, 2006).

A lot of scholars such as Ellis (2004) believed that the most common goal in learning a language is to gain the ability to speak it. He states that, “the general goal of language learning in the fluent, accurate and the pragmatically effective use of the target language” (p.101)

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Moving through the history of approaches and techniques in foreign language teaching clearly indicates that the focus and goal shifted gradually from “reading” to “speaking”. According to Richard & Rodgers (2003), the same method utilize in teaching Latin were applied in teaching English, meaning the goal was not learning to speak the foreign language but to translate sentences into it or from it and speaking was limited to reading the translated sentences out loud. This was the beginning of Grammar Translation Method where little or no attention is paid to speaking and grammatical accuracy was the

Communicative approaches set the environment for authentic communications. Total Physical Response believed that the learner should first gain sufficient knowledge and encouraged them to start speaking when they are ready and their focus was to train learners who produce language intelligible to narrative speakers. Silent way gave the learners the responsibility of their own learning, community language learning was built around messages that learners conveyed to each other sitting in a