Exploring the Oral Interaction in EFL Classroom.

Abstract

Oral interaction is an important phase in the classroom of English as a foreign language (EFL), which is the reciprocal of ideas, information and negotiation that takes place between the participants of the interaction teacher and students. The current study aims at exploring the importance and the effectiveness of oral interaction in reinforcing and enhancing students’ English proficiency. This piece of work introduces the concept of oral interaction in the EFL classroom, and sheds light on the patterns of interaction (teacher-student interaction and student-students interaction. Then, it focuses on oral interaction’s aspects, principles and factors that affect it. In addition to the distinctive roles and responsibilities played by the teacher and students. The answers of the research questions explored through the analysis of the required data conducted by two data collection methods, two questionnaires directed to both EFL teachers and students at Mila University Center, and classroom observation that was conducted through two groups. The findings confirmed that oral interaction is really an effective pedagogical strategy in developing learners’ English proficiency. On this basis, some pedagogical recommendations and suggestions were proposed to EFL teachers and learners in order to develop the teaching and learning process.