Abstract:
The current study is an attempt to examine the problems that face the advanced students in
the English Department in the Almarj Faculty of Education in speaking. The aim of this study
is to discover the difficulties that the students face when speaking in the second language.
The participants of this study are 25 students from seven and eight semesters. Date were
collected through interviewing the students and giving them a particular topic to talk about.
Date were analyzed according to the assessment criteria posited in the study. The results of
the study showed that the students demonstrated a low level of performance when speaking in
the target language. Some recommendations were offered to help both the teacher and the
students in the process of improving the performance of English speaking.
