Factors Influencing Sudanese University Students’ Oral Communication Skills

The study is about the factors influencing Sudanese university students’ oral communication skills. The main aim of the study is to find out the Sudanese university students' weaknesses and problematic areas that hinders their oral communication skills in English. The study applied the descriptive and analytical methods to achieve the desired goals. The sample of the study includes undergraduate students and university instructors from Bakht-er-Ruda University. The data gathering instruments namely, questionnaire and interview were used to collect the data of the study. However, the data were analyzed using statistical packages for social sciences (SPSS) program. The findings of the study revealed that factors contributed in reducing students' oral communication skills were students’ personality factors, Limited access to language lab, syllabuses used provide very minimal exposure to the use of language. Based on the findings, the study recommends that more emphasis on psychological needs of students is needed to help them develop their oral communications kills. In addition to that, instructors should encourage students' to be engage in a competitive language atmosphere through language labs and language societies. Students should be exposed to a variety of language context. Mohamed Idris Elshami Mohamed, Muawia Osman Elhag Abdallah, Farah Ahmed Dawaina AdamFactors Influencing Sudanese University Students’ Oral Communication Skills. A Case Study of Bakht-erRuda University EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH Vol. VIII, Issue 3 / June 202