EFL Intermediate Students' Challenges within Speaking

EFL Intermediate Students' Challenges within Speaking

1. Interlanguage

   • Students internalize imprecise concepts

2. Fossilization

   • Students cannot see improvements on their speaking performances

3. Errors

   • "[...] gaps in a learner's knowledge [...]" (ELLIS, 1997, p.17)

4. Mistakes

   • "[...] lapses in performance [...]" (ELLIS, 1997, p. 17)

5. Fluency

   • The learner is capable of communicating easily without hesitations (SRIVASTAVA, 2017)

6. Accuracy

   • The learner is capable of developing correct sentences according to grammatical structures (SRIVASTAVA, 2017)