Enhancing EFL Secondary School Learners’ Listening and Speaking Skills through Classroom Games

Abstract

The present master dissertation aims at investigating the effectiveness of using educational games in improving learners’ listening and speaking skills. Hence, to achieve the mentioned objective, a descriptive study is conducted, by collecting data from a questionnaire which was addressed to EFL secondary school teachers; in addition to the use of a classroom observation with second year pupils of Cherief Yahia secondary school. Moreover, the questionnaire explores teacher’s perception to the usefulness of games as a technique for teaching listening and speaking skills; whereas, the classroom observation collects information from the concerned group about their reaction. In general, this study describes the process of using classroom games and how much pupils may benefit from them. The results reveal that games can have an influential role in the teaching learning process. In the sense that, they enhance learners’ listening and speaking competences in an easy and a funny way. Nevertheless, games need to be well selected by the teachers, and they have to fit to the learners’ background, cultural context and learning styles. Yet, they need to be used with conditions such as being appropriate to the pupils’ level, the lesson objectives and the time constraints.