English Speaking Competency: A Study on Primary Teachers in Bangladesh

Dipa Adhikari
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Dipa Adhikari: Instructor, Primary Teachers Training Institute (PTI), Mymensingh, Bangladesh.

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2025, vol. 9, issue 5, 165-175

Abstract: This study is concerned with English language teaching that the teachers of primary school unable to express their opinions in English. Sometimes they lose their attention and confidence and feel nervous while speaking English in the English classroom. Even they can’t use simple command, instructions in English properly. It is essential to make the classroom communicative the teachers should use English more and more in English classroom. The more the teachers speak English, the more the students hear and learn English. Because for a numbers students school is the only place where they can listen and learn something in English. But in reality there is no practice and reflection of this skill inside the classroom. They always use Bangla and also give commands and instructions in Bangla while conducting the English Class. There is no initiative to develop speaking competency in English and they initially ignore it. In this study, the researcher used systematic random sampling to select primary school teacher for data collection are questionnaire for interview and for oral test qualitative data will be used. The researcher has used both book review and article review for literature review. This paper explores the enhancement of speaking ability in English of primary teachers in Bangladesh and gives some strategies and techniques and recommendation to develop speaking competency of primary teachers in English.

Date: 2025
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