Oral Participation in Class, Problems, and Solutions

In this paper, the focus is on oral participation during lectures. Oral refers to active engagement of learners in lecture by speaking, asking, giving comments, and participating pair or group discussions. The students are supposed participate practice language improve their speaking skills. main question study is: Why do not speak engage lectures? Hence, aim paper find out factors that affect performance. study, researcher examined reason behind lack English Foreign Language department at Cihan University-Erbil solutions for improving A questionnaire was prepared based most common reasons affecting class it divided into four sections: Personal factors, role teacher, environmental linguistic factors. participants were University-Erbil. After conducting questionnaire, had an interview with teachers. results showed there many hinder from turn them passive listeners. personal effect teachers prominent impact learner’s performance.