Teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards using pair work to improve EFL students’ writing performance
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2017
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university of Oum- El- Bouaghi
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Writing is considered as a crucial skill to be improved for foreign language learners. Therefore, teachers should integrate effective strategies so that students promote their writing performance in their target language. The aim of the current research is to investigate teachers' and students' attitudes towards using Pair work to improve EFL Students' Writing Performance. It is hypothesized that teachers and students would have positive attitudes towards the use of pair work to improve EFL students' writing performance. The study was carried out at the English department of Larbi Ben M'Hidi University during the academic year 2016/2017. A descriptive method has been applied through using two questionnaires. The first questionnaire is distributed to 40 third year students at the English department of Larbi Ben M'Hidi University. The second one is assigned to 12 teachers from the same department. The results gained from both questionnaires demonstrated that students are satisfied in working in pairs and they recognize the benefit of such active learning technique. It helps writers to write better; select the appropriate ideas for the topic, correct each other mistakes and enrich their vocabulary knowledge. Teachers' results have shown that they are aware about the effectiveness of implementing pair work in improving EFL students' writing performance. Teachers should be able to manage some discipline issues because of the students' tendency to be noisy when working together.
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writing skill, pair work and EFL students