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The purpose of the study is to study the speech defects observed in the process of acquiring the academic development and speech skills that affect their social lives to students who are studying in high school according to the teacher's opinions. The research was carried out with a semi-configured conversation technique within the framework of the quality research approach. The research work group consists of 10 Turkish teachers working in high schools located in the center of a province in the Southeast Anadolu Region in the 2021-2022 academic year. The study used 7 material semi-configured conversation forms as a data collection tool. In the analysis of data, the content analysis technique was used. Research findings show that due to exam concern, the test-focused worker cannot spend enough time to speak and write, that teachers conduct voice stories and poetry reading activities in their classes to improve their students’ speech skills, that students have observed speech defects such as non-speech rights, local oral use and lack of speech treasure, that academic success is affected by speech skills and that students with speech difficulties experience disability in showing their social skills.

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