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This paper tackles the social hindrances that impede the oral communicating process in English for the students of the college of business administration at Kuwait University. Three sub-skills have been examined in the process of the speaking skill; namely, pronunciation, intonation, and stress. The researcher also examined the socio influence on both strength and weakness in the speaking skill for the targeted students. In addition, this research focuses on how grammar is influential in conveying ideas and expressing opinions and attitudes; how it is difficult to initiate opening declarative and interrogative statements to build up convenient communication process in academic and social environments. Moreover, the researcher tackled the issue of social interaction in academic arena and simultaneously retains the sense of identity as well as students’ abilities to explain certain situations and easily offering appropriate comments on such situations. The researcher explores the possible socio implements that hinder students from socially respond to social stimuli in English. The researcher suggests some recommendations to cure the deficiencies found in oral proficiency students of the college of business administration encounter. He believes that effective communication should be the fruit of the development of communication patters based on expectations as well responses to other speakers in order to be effectively orally responsive to certain experiences.
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