... that they are good at writing and reading since they like and usually practice these skills; in contrary, they are bad at listening and speaking as their vocabulary is not enough and their pronunciation ... follows: -A study on the strategies for improving students’ oral skill at an Upper-Secondary School in Nghean 41 -A study on the combination of teaching speaking skill and grammar for developing students’ ... ideas in vocabulary and syntactic structures of the target language According to Kathleen M Bailey and Lance Savage (1993: 18), depending on the formality and importance of the speech situations...