The Effect of Distance Learning on Students’ Oral Achievements. Case study of first year master at mila university.

Abstract

The term distance education is not a newborn, as it has been under research for a long time, but it has become the talk of the hour due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced most countries to adopt distance learning. Teaching speaking skill has a direct relationship with distance education because of the lack of communication when using it in comparison with the old face to face method. This work consists two chapters which provide information about distance learning in one hand and speaking skill in the other. Since many countries are adopting distance education, this work is important as it sheds the lights on how can distance learning effect the students’ achievements concerning speaking skill and what difficulties the students may face when using it. The current study is mainly based on analyzing the attitudes of master one students at Mila University Center about distance learning and its effect on their oral achievement using a questionnaire, and a comparison between their grades before and after the adoption of distance learning using Pearson Correlation Coefficient which indicate the extent to which the two variables of the research are related. It aims at identifying the effect of distance learning on students’ oral achievements and the reasons behind that effect in order to help mproving the teaching and learning quality. The questionnaire’s findings state that distance learning affects students’ speaking skill negatively; while, the grades comparison shows that distance learning affects their oral achievements positively. Based on the results, the research hypothesis is disconfirmed.