Research on Oral English Fluency of EFL Learners Based on SPSS Software

Speaking as a core component of English competence is an issue that concerns both EFL learners and teachers. The paper tends to investigate factors that may influence the international university students’ fluency of speaking English in terms of nationality, gender, educational background, how much time spent in speaking English every day and the length time of stay in the host country. The relationship of the above variables and the self-reported fluency of speaking English will be discussed by the Mann-Whitney U Test and Spearman Correlation Test in SPSS. The statistical results show that those factors that affect English learners’ attitudes towards speaking English do not play a significant role but one particular variable that does definitely affect the students’ perception of oral English fluency, which is the time spent in speaking English, namely about 5 hours every day. This empirical research indicates that the more practice in speaking English every day the more comfortable the international students feel speaking English with others. It will be interesting to investigate specific ways to improve speaking such as social network and engagement in the community by qualitative method in order to provide evidence for better language supporting programs for international students in the host country.