The Role of Group working in Enhancing Students' Speaking Skills.

Abstract

The present study seeks to explore second - year students' and oral expression teachers ' attitudes towards the implementation of group working to enhance students ' speaking skill. Speaking can be considered as one of the most challenging tasks since most English foreign language learners fail to acquire it due to many nstraints including , fear of making both grammatical and pronunciation mistakes, lack of self -confidence, receiving harsh comments, anxiety and shyness . It can be said that there are many ways through which teachers can help their students to improve their speaking abilities, including creating real life situation in the classroom to enable students to show their speaking potentials and to meet their needs. However, it would not be easy for teachers to achieve this objective unless by using some helpful speaking strategies. The study suggests using group work as a beneficial strategy used for motivating students and increasing their speaking opportunities. Two questionnaires are used to collect data from a sample of 40 second - year students and 5 oral expression teachers at Ebdelhafid Boussouf university centre during the academic year ( 2021-2022).The two estionnaires are used to show the effectiveness of group work in improving students ' oral proficiency and to know teachers views about it. The findings showed that most of the respondents hold positive attitudes towards the ectiveness of group working, this confirmed the hypothesis that if teachers implement group working, students' speaking skill will be enhanced. It gives students additional opportunities to interact with one another and help one another in developing correct grammar rules, appropriate vocabulary, and, most importantly, correct nunciation. Eventually, this research work recommended some suggestions for teachers and students to meet both achers' and students' goals.