Teachers' and students' attitudes towards the use of rewards to promote EFL students' oral fluency
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2014
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université Oum-El-Bouaghi
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Students ofenglish suffer from a real problem which is lack of motivation that is an important factor in the learning process. That's why teachers are always searching for an effective strategy to be used in their EFL classrooms in order to motivate their students and help them to develop their oral fluency. This dissertation shed light on one strategy that is proved to be effective in raising motivation that is the reward strategy that is originated from the theory of the behaviourists. The dissertation contains two main chapters aimed at investigating teachers' and students' attitudes towards the use of rewards in the english as a foreign language classrooms and seeing whether or not rewards have any significant impact on promoting EFL students' oral fluency at Larbi Ben M'Hidi university, department of english. Seventy (70) third year LMD students and twenty (20) teachers at the english department were chosen to participate in this work. The students were randomly chosen from third year english LMD students of the academic year 2013-2014. To answer the questions of the study that ask about whether or not rewards have any significant effect on promoting EFL students' oral fluency and about the most helpful type of reward, two questionnaires were distributed for both teachers and students. The results of the present study show that the reward strategy with its two types tangible and verbal is a very useful, helpful and effective strategy that raises students' self confidence and self esteem, reduces their fears and motivates them to speak fluently especially when it is verbally administered.
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Teaching : english : EFL : oral fluency activities