Developing speaking skills in the English classroom

Document Type : Original Article

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Oman Tourism College, Muscat, Oman

Abstract

This paper focuses on developing speaking skills in the English classroom in an Arab EFL context, particularly in Oman.
It explores the most important factors that material designers should take into account when designing speaking activities.
It also describes some speaking tasks taken from published books in the Omani context and examines their effectiveness
in developing speaking skills of the intended language learners. 

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