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Elisa Pérez García, María Jesús Sánchez Manzano 
This quantitative research deals with the crucial role of motivation in developing the speaking skill in the EFL classroom. Subjects for the study were 100 EFL high school students in two different public secondary schools in Salamanca, Spain. They completed a 32-item questionnaire which was designed to measure students’ attitudes and beliefs about English language learning as well as to examine the situational factors in their own secondary schools. The study reveals that the different situational factors analysed such as teaching styles, teacher’s attitude, class environment and materials must be improved in the EFL classroom in order to firstly meet students’ expectations about learning English and secondly to motivate students positively towards the practice of oral communication in English.
