Communicative Strategies to Enhance EFL Learners Speaking Skill

Abstract

Recently, great attention have been oriented towards the communicative strategies of language learning. However, teaching the speaking skill represent a great challenge for both teachers and learners. Thus, every language learner desires to acquire correct communicative skills and fluency in speaking. Conversely, teaching to communicate in real situations is somehow neglected in EFL context, and students have little exposure to practice the language in the classroom. Therefore, teachers should apply various techniques and activities to enhance their Learners' speaking performance, foster their communicative skill, and introduce the idea that speaking activities that are designed to provoke speaking as a skill where there is a purpose for talking, which is not just linguistic. While teachers aim to give the necessary feedback concerning speaking. As well, our foremost objective is to reveal the essence of acquiring speaking competency and investigate the relationship between the developed level of learners in oral expression and the variation of speaking activities. The present research aims at investigating the effectiveness of using communicative activities to improve EFL learners speaking skill. Throughout this research, we attempt to demonstrate the issues that learner encounter which may destroy their oral engagement. Whereby, we emphasize on raising students’ awareness of the importance of the speaking skill. Among the main objectives of this work is to provide learners with strategies to overcome speaking deficiencies to promote their oral performance. Our hypothesis assumes that providing the second year English students with significant communicative activities will improve their speaking ability which will boost the level of their oral performance. To verify our hypotheses, this research is based on two questionnaires addressed to both Oral Expression teachers and second year EFL students at Abdel Hamid Ibn Badis University of Mostaganem as a data collection tool besides to one classroom observation.