EPROS

Since the beginning, speaking the English language has been a challenge for most of the Malaysian students. Lack of confidence and afraid of being judged, are among the reasons behind the insecurities of the students to use the English language in their daily life. As a result, this predicament has hindered their English language learning as they are too scared to ask questions when they do not understand certain topics in class. Therefore, the proper initiative must be carried out to help Malaysian students to improve their speaking skills either in ESL classrooms or outside of the classroom. This paper aims to shed light on one of the ways to enhance students’ speaking skills, which is through a program named EPROS. EPROS is a conference-like program that consists of 7 booths that will cover 7 components which are divided into 2 aspects. The first aspect is the internal factors of an individual which are inhibition, nothing to say, low participation, and mother tongue use (Ur, 1996). The second aspect is the components of English speaking skills which are vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar (Brown, 2004; Fitriani, 2015; Syakur, 2007). This program will be involving the students of Pusat Asasi, UiTM Kampus Dengkil, both as the mediators and participants, and it will be open to the public who are interested in improving their English speaking skills. The objective of this program is built under the foundation of a need analysis where the majority of the respondents (90 out of 120 respondents) chose speaking skills as the most challenging skill in learning the English language. Hence, it is hoped that this program can be one of the significant factors in enhancing and improving Malaysian students’ English speaking skills.