Amiar, RokayaZaidi, Khadidja2018-03-132018-03-132013http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2407Writing is one of the four language skills which is given emphasis in foreign language learning. However, students find it difficult when coming to the issue of where to place punctuation marks while writing. Hence, teachers adopt and adapt various methods in the writing classrooms to ensure that the students excel in putting punctuation marks. The presentstudy aims at describing and investigating the effects of group work on enhancing students’punctuation use. In order to check this correlation, we have hypothesized that using group work technique enhances students’ use of punctuation marks. It is by the means of two questionnaires to both teachers and students from the english department at Larbi Ben M’Hidi university, Oum-El-Bouaghi that we verify the validity of the stated hypothesis. Teachers’ questionnaire is given to ten teachers of techniques of written expression to get insights about the techniques used in teaching writing as well as their perceptions towards group work technique and its effects on punctuation use. The students’ questionnaire is administered to fifty second-year English students at the same department during the academic year 2013- 2014 to examine their attitudes towards the use of group work as a technique to help learners enhance their punctuation. The discussion of the results confirmed the stated hypothesis that using group work in writing classrooms enhances students’ use of punctuation marks.enEnglish language : punctuationOther