The Role of Self-Esteem in Enhancing learner’s Speaking Skills

Abstract

Over a few decades, speaking the English language has become surely fundamental since it is internationally perceived language in practically all fields. In this way, if we want EFL students to be familiar and great at talking we initially ought to urge them to rehearse with an eye towards progress. We should raise the students awareness and introduce them with the significant importance that speaking skill has in building up their language. The present examination attempts to investigate and explore the relationship between the student’s self-esteem and their speaking skill and also the teacher‘s role in advancing and promoting learner’s speaking skill. The researcher aims at highlighting the importance of self-esteem throughout the learning process, and raising the awareness of the value and the role of self-esteem and how it affects the learner’s development. The major question of this study is whether higher learners’ self-esteem can raise and improve their speaking skill. Moreover, the effectiveness of self-esteem on the Oral performance of EFL learners and their production. In addition to the factors that promote EFL learners speaking ability. Our hypotheses assume that providing the second year English students with a significant level of self-esteem, they will be ready to confide in their own capacities which thusly will build their degree of oral production. To verify our hypotheses, this study is based on two questionnaires addressed to both oral expression teachers and second year students of English as a foreign language at Abdel Hamid Ibn Badis University of Mostaganem as a data collection tool in addition to one classroom observation. The analysis of the questionnaires’ results reported that both teachers and students are aware of the importance of self-esteem as an affective factor in developing the oral production .Finally, this piece of work ends up by providing some useful and valuable suggestions for EFL learners to increase their learning process.