Students’ Views on the Effectiveness of English Speaking Course in the School of Foreign Languages

Speaking skill should be given special importance within the four language skills as it is an important aspect of communication. Therefore, the English education given should be in favor of developing the students’ speaking skills, considering all of the process; including the materials used as well as the classroom context. Moreover, the evaluation aspect of speaking skill is another important point to consider. European * Doç. Dr., Fırat Ü. Eğitim Fak., Eğt. Bil. Bölümü, Elazığ. El-mek: nurigomleksiz@yahoo.com ** Okt., Ġnönü Ü. Yabancı Diller Yüksek Okulu. El-mek: ozlem_mirac@hotmail.com 496 Mehmet Nuri GÖMLEKSİZ – Özlem Miraç ÖZKAYA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 7/2 Spring 2012 Language Portfolio is a document which puts the standards for this aspect of education and files individual information in terms of their language experience and knowledge. Moreover, it uses the Common European Framework as a criterion for the language competence. The aim of this study is to determine views of students, who enrolled at English preparatory class at the School of Foreign Languages in İnonü University, towards their English speaking skill competency. The study was conducted on 150 preparatory school students. Data were collected through a questionnaire prepared considering the Common European Framework. Independent samples t-test and one way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. As a result, it was determined that students’ views towards their English speaking skill did not differ in terms of gender and the high school type variables. Students’ views on their speaking skills differed significantly in terms of taking English as compulsory or willingly.