Teaching Productive Skills to the Students: a secondary Level Scenario

through story telling activity? 
This question is about what they think about story telling activities for improving 
learners speaking skills. In response to this question teachers said learners love to 
listen stories. Unconsciously learners pick some words and chunks which enrich 
learners‟ vocabulary and help to pronounce words accurately. Thus story telling is a 
helpful method for improving speaking skills of learners. While telling stories learners 
acquire words which appear fascinating to them and also this listening increases 
imagination power. Thus they improve their skills and become confident.
Analysis of Question no 5:What kind of problems do you face while teaching 
speaking skills? 
 
In reply to the fifth question, all the teachers said that they mainly face problem 
with large class and less class duration. They said that students are meritorious and 
their motivation is satisfactory, everybody wants to learn but they do not get enough 
time to take activity-based classes. There are more than 30 to 50 students in the 
classrooms but class duration is only 40 to 50 minutes. Seven of them mentioned that 
they need training on language teaching because they are from literature background 

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and do not have proper knowledge of teaching language. The teachers said that they do 
not have appropriate materials to teach spoken English to Bangladeshi learners. 
Analysis of Question no 6:Do you have any suggestion for improving the process 
of teaching speaking skills? 
 
For suggestions from teachers to recommend for improving the process of 
teaching speaking skill, ten out of twelve respondents think existing teaching materials 
should be improved. Seven respondents suggested improvements in the teaching 
process as a recommendation for teaching speaking skills. Use of technology (audio, 
video, web materials) seems a burning need as all of the respondents (twelve in whole). 
Reconstruction of mark distribution on exam was found to be necessary by all the