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This study focused on speaking skill which is one of the general aims of language education is prepared to evaluate the attitudes of Gazi University School of Foreign Languages students who are learning French regarding the difficulties they face in speaking. Necessity analysis and attitude scale is used to as a tool. In order to collect data about their attitudes, students were given a five point likert-scale (n=73), (Yelok, 2009) in the education period 2011 – 2012. The opinions of the students were also influential in the construction of the questionnaire which includes 20 items. The effects of variables such as gender were also evaluated via SPSS 16.0; ONE WAY ANOVA program is used to analyse the other variables age, school of graduation, and economic status. Results revealed that French teacher candidates have a positive attitude towards oral expression in French and they have no problem with timidity, excitement, mistaken, pronunciation but they have problem with feeling insufficient themselves, lack of vocabulary information, thinking Turkish and insufficient environment to practise speaking. This is related with the variables of age, gender, school of graduation and economic status. Moreover attitude of teacher has a great effect on students. As a result, our study to improve speaking education ends with suggestion part.

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