Living things express themselves verbally, textually or physically and it is called communication. Since the first moment of life, human beings are able to express their feelings and thoughts through various methods. Communication through these transfers has sometimes resulted in teaching. Teaching generally takes place in the classroom and…

Expressing thoughts and feelings effectively is a vital skill for individuals' professional career. University students should thus attach due importance to their communication skills as they receive their professional training. Self-efficacy beliefs can be regarded as an influential element in speaking skills, and may affect different aspects of…

The study aims to determine the reality of practicing educational communication skills among students at Princess Rahma University College (Al-Balqa Applied University) and the problems they face in practicing communication skills. The researcher used the descriptive method and a questionnaire consisting of two parts: the student's communication…

Human beings are social creatures by nature and one of their most important characteristics is the multifaceted communication they establish with their environment. There are numerous ways of establishing communication. However, the most preferred manner has always been speech. For the speaking skill to be used effectively, the individual should…

This study was conducted to investigate whether implementing communicative activities, in particular information gap and language games, in Libyan secondary schools affect students' speaking performance. A quasi-experimental, nonequivalent, pre-test-post-test design was conducted on 42 first year Libyan secondary school students in a private…

Listening and speaking skills are fundamental determinants of an individual's academic success. The aim of this research is to establish the relationship between listening and speaking skills, and study how listening predicts and cognitively arranges speaking. The research was carried out using the quantitative pattern in correlational type. The…

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of Academic controversy as a technique of collaborative learning on Turkish Teachers candidates' success to effective speaking skills and its relationship with variables like gender and multilingualism. Therefore the experimental design based on the pre-test and post-test measurement with control…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe normative and validation data on the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS; McLeod, Harrison, & McCormack, 2012c) for English-speaking children. Method: The ICS is a 7-item, parent-report measure of children's speech intelligibility with a range of communicative partners. Data were collected…

This study explores ninth-grade (15-year-old) students' oral presentations in language arts and art education. The main research question is: In which ways are the students' social positioning and use of verbal and non-verbal resources reflected in boys' and girls' oral presentations? In-depth analyses of video recordings of student presentations…