Improving EFL Students’ Speaking Skill Via Student-centered Learning

Abstract

The current study aims at investigating the role of the student-centered learning (SCL) in improving the EFL students’ speaking skill. The main problematic of this work is that students are unable touse the target language in communication; it implies that there are many causes behind this problematic. For examples, the traditional way of teaching that is followed by teachers to teach speaking skill.However, the hypothesis adopted in this research is that teaching oral skills based on the student-centered learning principleswill enhance the students’ oralproficiency and will reduce their speaking difficulties. For this reason, this work investigates the relationship between the student-centered learning and teaching the speaking skill by focusing on the student-centered discussion inside the classroom. The focus of this paper is to demonstrate that student-centered discussion which is one major technique of classroom interaction can be an effective teaching-learning method to develop the learners’ speaking skill.