Factors affecting the speaking skill performance of first level students in king khalid university, kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Speaking performance is one of the core components of English language for the university students which are highly important to acquire to perform well during the class hours. Speaking is not merely opening mouth and say words and sentences, but it includes a cultural background of a target language which is spoken to get meaning interaction. The aim of the study is to investigate the factors affecting in the speaking skill performance of students and teachers feedback were found the significant differences. The questionnaire administered to the students and the teachers to elicit the data. The results revealed that the various factors affect students’ speaking performance, the majority of the teachers those who were holding masters degrees says students feel good in speaking ,but they could not able to perform well in the classroom, they were more anxious and worried about making mistakes in the classroom. The most important factors affecting the students were time for preparation and anxiety in speaking performance. The second factors were listening ability because of lack of confidence to perform well. The research concluded that most of the students in first level were not in intrinsically motivated, feed back during speaking task were forced to perform well, and they have inadequate integrated skills that would enable them to express themselves in the classroom.