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This is a case study aiming to reveal the prospective teachers’ views about their speaking skills. The aim of the study therefore is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to investigate the prospective teachers’ self-assessment of speaking problems. Secondly, it purports to explore the factors that support effective speaking from the perspectives of the perspective teachers. The study group consists of fifty prospective teachers studying at the Turkish Language Teaching Program. They have taken both speaking, and voice and diction training courses. Content analysis method has been used in the analysis of the data. Five themes have emerged from the prospective teachers’ answers regarding speaking problems that they can make while speaking: Prosodic features, emotional factors, pressured speech, physical problems and using vernacular language. The prosodic features has encompassed pronunciation, stress and intonation, pause, tone of voice subthemes. Emotional factors theme, on the other hand, has been split into two subthemes, i.e., lack of self-confidence and excitement. Seven themes have emerged from the prospective teachers’ answers regarding the factors that support effective speaking: Prosodic features, emotional factors, body language, preparation, expression style, content and competence. Prosodic features theme has included pronunciation, stress and intonation, pause and tone of voice subthemes.

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