Browsing by Author "Bechoua, Sabah"

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    Investigating EFL students’ attitudes towards the use of short stories to promote their oral performances
    (university of Oum- El- Bouaghi, 2017) Rouabeh, Khaoula; Bechoua, Sabah
    Including literature in teaching English as a foreign language is a very crucial idea to use. In fact, using short stories in EFL classes can help learners enhance their learning process thanks to their numerous benefits. One of the language skills that might profit from the use of short stories is oral performance. Since most EFL learners face difficulties in their oral performances like deficient vocabulary and inaccurate grammatical instructions, short stories are believed to be the appropriate solution to overcome these problems. Therefore, the present study aims at investigating EFL students' attitudes towards the use of short stories to enhance their oral performances. This study starts from the hypothesis that EFL learners will have positive attitudes the effect of using short stories to promote their oral performances. To carry out the descriptive method adopted, a questionnaire was administered to a sample of forty (40) third year LMD English students at Larbi Ben M'hidi University, Oum El bouaghi. After analyzing the results of the questionnaire, it is denoted that EFL students appreciate the use of short stories to promote their oral performances. On the basis of these findings, the hypothesis put forward was confirmed in that third year EFL students have favorable attitudes towards the effect of using short stories to improve their oral performances.
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    Investigating EFL teachers' and students' attitudes towards the role of cooperative group work technique in enhancing EFL learners' speaking skill
    (university of Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2016) Leghdiri, Amira; Bechoua, Sabah
    The present study aims at investigating EFL teachers' and learners' attitudes towards the use of cooperative group work to improve students' speaking skill performance. It starts with a hypothesis that teachers and students would have favourable views about the use of cooperative group work as a technique to enhance the speaking skill. In order to validate this hypothesis, a descriptive study is carried out through the administration of two questionnaires addressed to a sample of teachers and third year LMD students of english, at Larbi Ben M'Hidi University, during the academic year 2015/2016. The analysis of the collected data yielded some results that teachers and EFL learners have supportive attitudes towards the use of the cooperative group work technique in EFL classroom as to maximize learners' language use through participation, which does, in turn, affect their speaking skill, positively, as an ultimate goal. In the light of these findings, the prior hypothesis is not only confirmed, but interesting pedagogical implications are also revealed, as how to make CLL more beneficial to EFL learners.
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    Investigating teachers' and students' attitudes towards the role of interaction with native speakers through social media in enhancing EFL learners'speaking fluency
    (university of Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2016) Chebout, Hanene; Bechoua, Sabah
    The present study is mainly concerned with Investigating teachers' and students' perspectives and attitudes towards the role of interaction with native speakers in enhancing learners speaking fluency. It also attempts to shed light on the importance of such kind of immersion and exposure to the target language to get learners fluent in the use of the language. The basic hypothesis adopted in this study sets out that such distant interaction with NSs via social media would enhance learners' oral fluency. The method of this research work is descriptive.That is, it aims to describe the two variables: interaction with NSs through social media as the independent variable and its role in improving learners' oral fluency as the dependant variable.The data were gathered through self prepared questionnaires administered to Master One students and teachers at the department of english, Larbi Ben M'Hidi university. The results have shown that interaction with natives through social media is one of the available techniques for increasing learners' language speaking proficiency in terms of fluency. On the basis of these results, the hypothesis is confirmed in that students need to engage in such adequate interactions with natives through the use of diverse internet devices such as social media applications in order to be able to use a language without hesitation. This study certainly has its limitation, but its findings reveal interesting implications. Thus, future research should be done experimentally to test out the applicability to a larger population.