Oral Skills in the Spotlight: EFL in Secondary Education in a Spanish Local Context
Oral Skills in the Spotlight: EFL in Secondary Education in a Spanish Local Context

Summary/Abstract: Evidence of the weak competence of Spanish students in oral skills in English has been provided by a number of surveys at national and European level. The students involved had several years of EFL instruction at school behind them. This paper looks into students’ and teachers’ views on the teaching and learning of oral skills in Spanish secondary education. For that purpose a questionnaire was administered to a representative sample of teachers and students in secondary schools in the region of Aragón (Spain). The analysis will allow us to highlight aspects that need to be improved to raise students’ oral communicative competence in English.

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