Abstract
To enable a better use of placement test results, some characteristics of speaking class I-1 are discussed in this paper. Students of speaking class I-1 are lacking some basic strategies of natural speaking. From interviews with students, it became clear that they felt that while grammatical ability has a close relation with speaking skills, each skill training class is too separated and difficult for students. Now only two types of listening comprehension tests scores are used in order to place students into speaking classes. From the point of speaking, it is necessary to use other materials, such as needs analysis and self evaluation as well as greater use of grammar tests scores.
