In this study, as mentioned before, an attempt was made to find answers to the three questions concerning the relationship between the three factors of self-esteem, age, gender and speaking skills.
1- There is no relationship between self-esteem and speaking skills of EFL learners.
it is safe to conclude that that there is a significant relationship between self-esteem and fluency (Table 3.) whereas the other components of oral production do not meet the requirements of being statistically significant.
Regarding this hypothesis as statistics in the multivariate tests (Tables 2 and 3) clearly show there is no meaningful associations between these two factors as results show no significant difference at the 0.05 level of significant.
In their study concerning the effect of oral summery of short stories on male/female learners' speaking proficiency, no significant relationship was found between gender and the speaking skills.
below shows that there is a negative relationship between age and speaking skills, that is ,younger participants outperform their older peers in all sub-skills of production.
The results showed that fluency was the only factor which was significantly affected by self-esteem, although the other sub-skills of oral production showed various degrees of influence, yet not statistically significant.
In this study, a negative relationship was found between speaking skills and age, that is, younger learners outperformed the older ones.
According to Carroll (2008) biological changes, environmental factors, cognitive factors or the combination of factors might be responsible for the advantage that younger learners show in some studies .Regarding the relationship between gender and speaking skills no statistically significant relationship was found.
As it was shown, the level of learners' self-esteem has a significant effect on the fluency of learners' speaking.
English language learners could also benefit from the findings of this study to become aware of the impact of self - esteem and age and make appropriate decisions to enhance their self-esteem and also to begin learning a second language at an earlier age.