Emphasising the Importance of Promoting Classroom Interaction for EFL Students

Abstract

Interaction is needed in every classroom activity. It helps the teaching and learning process run smoothly and it can increase learner’s speaking skill. This study will examine the importance of classroom interaction in improving EFL students speaking skill, as well as the factors and speaking difficulties of EFL student’s that affect classroom communication, then, what a teacher can do to promote it. The aim of this research is to improve student’s speaking skill through promoting classroom interaction. The research methods that will be adopted for this piece of work will be purely descriptive. The required data were gathered through two research tools that have been conducted:questionnaires administered to L2, L3 students of English, as well as an interview with two teachers of oral expression module at the level of Abdelhamid Ibn Badis Mostaganem University. The analysis of the interviews and questionnaires showed that both learners and teachers consider classroom interaction as an important pedagogical strategy in enhancing learner’s speaking skill. The results of the present study will not be useful solely for students in helping them identifying their speaking difficulties, but also help teachers as well in their understanding of the student’s problems, and speaking difficulties that they encounter during classroom.