Reasons for The Neglect of Teaching of Oral Skills in Classrooms at School Level

Abstract

Oral language is not just speaking. It is a large set of skills encompassing listening and speaking comprehension, understanding and producing complex language, vocabulary and word knowledge, grammatical knowledge, phonological skills, and so much more. To trace the reasons for neglecting to teach oral skills in English classrooms, the researcher first set a hypothesis that oral skills may be overlooked in English classrooms. The design of the research was qualitative descriptive. The population for this study was English Language Teachers and students from District Gujranwala, while 80 teachers and 40 students from Tehsil Gujranwala were taken as sampling. A questionnaire for teachers and an interview technique for students were used to collect the data. Collected data was analyzed keeping in view the remarks of different teachers and feedback from students.