This quantitative research aims to examine 75 EFL students’ perspectives of teacher creativity in teaching English speaking skills at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education. Using Kharkhurin’s (2014) conceptual framework of creativity, the paper focuses on four dimensions of teachers’ novelty, utility, aesthetics and authentic attributes in teaching English speaking skills.

This study aims to explore the difficulties and propose effective strategies for teaching English speaking skills to the first-year Students with Low English Proficiency (SLEP). Two questionnaires were designed to investigate the learning and teaching of English-speaking skills among 60 randomly selected students with weak English proficiency from different classes at Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI), along with 6 teachers who participated in the teaching.

This study, therefore, aimed to investigate common speaking-teaching methods EFL teachers at Thanh Phu Junior High School in Vinh Cuu District were deploying to teach speaking skills to ninth-graders in their current speaking classes. Twenty English teachers from this school participated in the questionnaire survey while five of them were randomly chosen for the further interview process.

The research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of applying debate techniques to improve English speaking skills for 10th graders at a high school in Thai Binh province. The quasi-experimental method was applied to find out the current situation of teaching English speaking skills and to what extent debate technique can improve English speaking skills for 10th graders.

The experience of English teaching, especially speaking class, comes from the actual classroom and that is not a good news for a new teacher, who does not have it but urgently needs to acquire the basic knowledge. This writing provides the reasons why the level of interesting acts as a crucial point in the succeeding of a class. Furthermore, some methods of teaching speaking are going to be viewed and discussed to strengthen the point of view that intrinsic motivation should be applied in the class.

The main purpose of the research is finding out the relationship between background knowledge and students’ English speaking skill through experimental process. Also, it is intended to provide some reliable implication for teaching English speaking skill at high school in Dong Thap province.