Investigating teacher's and student's attitudes towards the importance of sound transcription for the enhancement of EFL learner's oral performances
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2016
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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The analysis of the research findings shows that sound transcription brings a significant development in students' oral performances. Our study took place in Larbi Ben M'Hidi university, in Oum-El-Bouaghi. We worked with 60 students of first year LMD and 15 teachers of oral expression and phonetics modules. It has been noticed that a lot of learners have problems in transcribing FL sounds. The study is made up of three main chapters.Chapter one is a general introduction about the importance of sound transcription, chapter two is related to the importance of speaking in EFL classrooms, and chapter three presents the field work to evaluate this FL proposal and the methodology design and the data analysis of the descriptive study. Thus, the conclusion drawn from this study has confirmed the reliability of the proven hypothesis that the use of sound transcription in EFL classroom, would improve relatively the learners' oral performances since they would be able not only to pronounce accurately, but to spell correctly the words as well. Teachers allot a little time to sound transcription, therefore learners lack considerable practice to master this learning aspect. Syllabus designers, in this turn, are urged to design activities which would enable students to overcome the sound transcription and design sufficient activities for practice.
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Oral performonce : group work, EFL learners : phonitic