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Assessing speaking abilities is crucial in language education since speaking is one of the core language skills, and teachers need to provide feedback to learners and structure their teaching accordingly However, assessing EFL learner's speaking proficiency has always been a challenge, especially in contexts where the examiner/teacher is not a native speaker. Speaking is seen by many teachers as the most difficult of the four language skills to assess. This study looks at the challenges teachers may encounter in the process of assessing their students' speaking abilities and issues that surround EFL speaking assessment. It also considers implications for language teaching practitioners and provides some guidelines to design and deploy relevant speaking tests and tools for EFL learners.