The Role of Students-teacher Rapport in the Learning Process and its Outcome

Abstract

Enhancing and developing students‟ learning process remains the primary target for most teachers and researchers. To be improved, this process requires building a positive students teacher rapport in classroom. Hence, this research aims at raising teachers‟ awareness of the impact of students-teacher rapport on students‟ learning process. This study explores the nature of this rapport in a class of third-year students in IdrissSnoussi high school in Mostaganem,and studies the influence of this relationship on students‟ learning outcomes. The research at hands yields both quantitative and qualitative results after the analysis of the data collected from a questionnaire structured for thirty students of secondary school in Mostaganem, and a classroom observation. The results reveal that students-teacher rapport has a great impact on students‟ learning; the positive one enhances it while the negative one disrupts it.