Reading Comprehension and Oral Skills Issues among Sonatrach Learners

Abstract

Pursuing studies abroad is a dream for some students who want to improve their university education with quality. Although the expected results sometimes do not reflect it. When we cite as example the way of expression of foreign students from the English department, it makes sense. There is a distance between the theoretical work done during the learning process and the fruits harvested in the field. With the aim of clarifying and helping to remedy this technical defect, this study was conducted. To identify the influencing factors and causes of this problem, the hypothesis is that foreign students do not integrate, if not really acclimatize to the host society, which does not facilitate the oral exercise of the target language. In addition, the great cultural influence (mother tongue) of their belonging seems to make learning efforts in vain, then finally, the lack of rigor and discipline in the studies. So to achieve our objectives, data collection was started by means of a questionnaire and an interview submitted to different students (foreigners) then to certain professors chosen at random, all from both the Ibn Badis University of Mostaganem and Moustapha Stambouli of Mascara. Rather conclusive results have proven the unsocial character of certain foreign students. As most students are more concerned with communicating in the local language (mother tongue or second language), rather than favoring the exercise of the English language. This could be explained by the communitarian nature of their frequentation. In addition, it all comes down to a lack of discipline and rigor with regard to learning and specialization, and even more so the cultural aspect which represents a real psychological block for these students from elsewhere.