Factors Affecting English-Majored Students’ Speaking Skills at Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry

Abstract

English is one of the most active languages used in the world to express ideas and converse with each other. So popularly communicative is the language, yet a lot of HUFI English-majored students still have to cope with the speaking skill. The research was conducted with the aim of discovering factors that engender English oral performance difficulties, using quantitative methodology to gather information from 92 students whose major is English language. The data collected from participants was meticulously analysed and helped solidify the researcher’s idea of such factors that cause trouble for them. As a result, the researcher came up with the deduction that intrinsic, educational, and linguistic factors are all the reason behind the respondents’ inability to speak English. Hence, the findings could unfold a new horizon for those who have an inquisitive mind on the problem and a desire to solve it based on the comprehensive insights given in the paper. Educationally, the research results are also expected to contribute to the future teaching methodology reformation so that English speaking skills could be achieved in the most effective way.