Autonomous EFL Learners’ Ways of Practicing Speaking Skills During Pandemic of COVID 19;

Learning English is learning skills in which practice plays the most prominent role. Among other skills, speaking has the highest interest to be mastered by English learners. Not only English students but also general English learners, fresh graduates in specific, retain spoken English to apply for their further study or future jobs. The pandemic disruption, undeniably, has limited access to an offline English practice. That is why some autonomous ways of learning spoken English are worth trying. This study is aimed at finding out the fresh graduates’ way of improving their English speaking skills. Ten graduates of the engineering department were interviewed on their ways of improving their speaking ability in line with the absence of classmates or partners. The data were then analyzed descriptively. The findings showed that most of the respondents preferred to sing English songs in practicing English speaking skills. Some others chose to talk to themselves and use a mirror. Only a few of them focus on fluency, not grammar and none of them took online English courses. This indicates that sitting with classmates or having direct partners in improving spoken English is not a must.