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CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY OF STUDY PROJECT REPORT I certify my authority of the Study Project Report entitled A study on the reality of teaching speaking skill to non-English major students at Thai Nguyen University-College of Technology: relevant difficulties and some suggested teaching speaking techniques and activities To total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts Nguy?n Th? Thu Linh 2008  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest thanks to Mr. Le The Nghiep for his assistance, encouragement as well as his guidance he gave me while I was doing my research. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all my lecturers at the Department of Post-graduate Studies, College of Foreign Languages, Vietnam National University, Hanoi whose support and considerations have enabled me to pursue the course. I would also like to express my thanks to the teachers of English at Thai Nguyen University – College of Technology who helped me in providing the materials, answering the survey questionnaire, taking part in the interviews actively and making constructive comments. I am also thankful to my first-year students of K43 (students of Electrical Engineering and Mechanics Department) from five classes K43M-222, K43M-211, K43M-322, K43I-122, K43I-121 for their whole-heated participation in the study. Last but not least, I owe my sincere thanks to my father, my younger sister, my husband, my son and my kind-hearted friends – Ms Lan and Ms Linh, who have always inspired and encouraged me to complete this study. ABSTRACT The research in this minor thesis is carried out to investigate the reality of teaching the speaking skill to non-major students of English at Thai Nguyen University – College of Technology (TNU-CT) but only focuses on relevant difficulties experienced by the teachers of English and some recommendations including coping strategies and classroom techniques and activities for them to minimize