A CRITICAL REVIEW ON ORAL ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS (OECS)

Abstract

In this digital era, English is such a lingua franca which is important to fill up our daily offline and online communication activities in all spheres of our life. Thus, EFL learners (graduate level) need to be skilled in oral English communication in functioning professional operation effectively in future career. It is observed that a graduate with good oral English communication skills (OECS) has a better chance in career advancement and promotion rather than one who does not. Thus, the objective of this critical review is to This critical review on 28 research papers from 2010 to 2019 chosen from the database of Springer and Scopus using selecting criteria of the PRISMA model (2009) and analyzing through NVIVO (12 version) aims to explore and identify causes for poor OECS, teaching techniques for OECS and assessment procedure of OECS. The prime findings of this study are shown that there are several causes e.g. anxiety, teaching techniques e.g. using technology or features of mobile phones and assessment procedures e.g. School-based assessment for OECS. The analysis of this study is conducted for a detailed description of the concepts and ideas for teachers and academic administrators for teaching and learn OECS effectively and functionally. However, this study would provide in-depth understanding and insights on causes and assessment of OECS for teachers who are teaching at the University level, administrators who are involved to design courses and above all graduate-level learners in EFL contexts and suggest investigating a paradigm shift of traditional pedagogy into mobile-based pedagogy in the future.