Abstract
This paper examines the linguistic barriers that impede English language communicative proficiency of the students of English language in the college of sciences and humanity studies, Thadiq, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia. The paper gives the specific linguistic problems that detain attaining a perfect English language communicative competence. The paper also examines the teaching strategies that help students reach competency in oral skill. It concludes with some suggestions that help students to achieve a higher proficiency in English language communication. 
Highlights
The persistence increasing number of people who are using English for global communication around the world makes English the language of international communication
The study hypothesizes that existence of some language barriers affect communicative proficiency, and it hypothesizes that inappropriate methods, approaches, and strategies adopted in teaching speaking skills hinder communicative proficiency
For the statements concerning methods, approaches and strategies used in teaching and learning speaking skill, the results show repetition of sounds of unfamiliar words and performing situational conversations in the classroom help a lot in enhancing the communicative proficiency
Summary
The persistence increasing number of people who are using English for global communication around the world makes English the language of international communication. The most remarkable fact is that the majority of the people who have learned English to communicate are multilingual speakers and they are more than the native people whose first language is English. The problem of the study is to see why students fail to achieve perfect proficiency in speaking skill. The study hypothesizes that existence of some language barriers affect communicative proficiency, and it hypothesizes that inappropriate methods, approaches, and strategies adopted in teaching speaking skills hinder communicative proficiency. The questions below has been stated to manage the paper: 1) What makes English language proficiency unattainable?. 2) What are the appropriate methods and approaches that help students reach a higher communicative proficiency?
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