Investigating EFL teachers' and students' attitudes towards the role of cooperative group work technique in enhancing EFL learners' speaking skill
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2016
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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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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Speaking skill