Engaging EFL Shy Learners in Speaking Skill Classroom Through Useful Strategies

Abstract

The present research deals with the teaching techniques and strategies used by teachers to engage shy students into speaking skill classroom. It aims at understanding the variables that are related to shyness in speaking as it targets to come out with some strategies that help the students to cope with shyness and to enhance their speaking abilities for better achievements respectively. First year students of the English department at Ibn Khaldoun University of Tiaret represented the sample of this research. To this end, this investigation is based on two questionnaires addressed to first year students and their teachers. Since university is considered as a new social environment for first year students where they meet new students, the choice then fell on first year licence level.