Enhancing Speaking Skills by Socratic Questioning Method (An investigational study on undergraduate students)

The present paper focuses on how speaking skills can be enhanced by Socratic Questioning Method. There are several methods and approaches formulated and applied at different levels to enhance speaking skills, but critical thinking and questioning attitude are still lacking at undergraduate levels. 40 heterogeneous undergraduate students have participated in a 4month Intervention Programme, the Pre-Test and the Post-Test results have extensively been recorded by the researcher during the Intervention Programme. International English Language Testing System (IELTS) -Speaking Skills Descriptors have been adopted to assess students' speaking skills for both tests. Positive results have been founded and observed that undergraduate students have moderately enhanced their speaking abilities. Band score variations have scrupulously been observed by language expert- team from top-notch English Language Institutes in India. This research article ontologically asserts that undergraduate engineering students can enhance speaking skills by thinking critically and applying Socratics Questioning Method implicitly and explicitly as a method to develop speaking competency.