The effect of speaking strategies on Iraqi EFL college students

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The present study deals with the effect of teaching speaking Strategies (SS) on EFL Iraqi College students.

The use of speaking strategies not only solves learners’ communication problems, but also enhances the learner’s interaction in target language, and improves their oral proficiency .The aim of the study is to find out the effect of teaching SS used by EFL College students .The learner of the first stage is population of the study at the Department of English, College of Education /Ibn-Rushd .The sample consists of (60) students distributed on experimental group(A) as well as control group(B) each group contains (30) students .

In order to achieve the aim of the study, questionnaire has been constructed to be taught on the experimental group and a test.

The questionnaire and the test have covered reduction strategies, achievement strategies, modified- interaction strategies and social-interaction strategies (table 1).The face validity of the test is proved by exposing it to a jury of specialists.

For reliability, Alpha Cronbach reliability coefficient has been used.

The results indicate that the SS strategies are useful in improving the students' conversation.

Accordingly, recommendation and suggestions for further studies are put forward.