Problems Face Students of Benghazi university in Speaking English

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  • Najah Alrisee faculty of Languages, Benghazi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37376/jofoa.vi57.7268

Abstract

The main theme of the research is going to be about the difficulties faced by English department students when attempting to speak in a foreign language (English in this case). How they overcome these problems when speaking. The data was collected in terms of questionnaires and interviews answered by ten randomly selected students, also personal experience of teaching students to speak. The results of this research demonstrated the challenges students will find out and why their speech is being restrained by many elements as lack of confidence, not enough practice, less motivation and so on, in an attempt by the researcher will to list some steps to help them enhance their speech and overcome these problems.

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Author Biography

Najah Alrisee, faculty of Languages, Benghazi

Lecturer in the English Department at the faculty of Languages, Benghazi

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Published

2025-03-18

How to Cite

Alrisee, N. (2025). Problems Face Students of Benghazi university in Speaking English. Journal of the Faculty of Arts, (57), 413–429. https://doi.org/10.37376/jofoa.vi57.7268

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