... (4)5 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 ... implementation of the communicative approach is the class size and the teaching schedule.” The author affirmed that the teacher is always under pressure to cover the allocated syllabus in the time allowed. To ... difficulties in teaching and learning speaking skill. All informants agreed on the idea that the teachers who werefriendly, considerate, funny, tolerant, sympathetic, and patient actually made them feel32...