The Importance Of Speaking Skills In Language Learning

Language learning is a process including receptive and productive skills. They all contribute to each other and one cannot be separated from the other. Speaking is the skill that people use to communicate in their business, family, and social life. As Bahadorfar and Omidwar (2014) state speaking is the most important language skill of all four skills because speaking has an importance in everyday life and people usually leave the first impression with their speaking abilities. Even though speaking has such an important value, teaching speaking has been underestimated and speaking has been taught through the repetition of drills and memorization of the texts; therefore; it is teachers` responsibility to teach students how to speak in the target

Even though it is an essential skill in language learning, for learners of second language, learning speaking in the target language is difficult, and the question here is `What makes speaking difficult? `, and Brown (1994) states that speaking needs some skills to say the language items fluently in chunks instead of words with the correct pronunciation and with adequate numbers of language items to accomplish the intended goal of conveying a message. Speakers also need to use the fillers not to break the fluency of the speaking when they hesitate or think about what to say. Additionally, it is important to use the grammatical parts of a language such as nouns, verbs, conjunctions in accordance with the body language and facial expressions to convey the goal message successfully. Another essential skill of speaking is to know what to say in different circumstances, situations considering the people that you are speaking with. Bygate (2001) states that speakers have to talk without having time lapse during their speaking and convey their message without spending time to check and correct their