Needs and Issues in Fostering EFL Learners’ Oral Performance.

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of learners’ psychological and pedagogical needs and issues on their speaking proficiency, as well as to raise awareness of their importance as crucial affective factors in foreign language learning. This present research was conducted with a sample of 20 participants who are third year scientific stream students of 11 December secondary school in Tissemsilt city; two teachers of high school were interviewed who are both from the same city. The presented data were collected through the use of two research instruments: an online questionnaire for learners and a semi-structured interview with two high school teachers. The collected data were recovered and analyzed objectively so that to conclude proper assumptions. The ultimate findings approved the hypotheses suggested earlier to certain extent. It was revealed that indeed Many challenging obstacles were raised while attempting to communicate in English by the students inside and outside the academic atmosphere. This study affirmed that it is important when teaching a foreign language to give much importance to the affective domain of the learner as it is given to the cognitive domain. Also, the adequacy of the deficient pedagogical strategies of speaking brought by the Algerian textbook was tackled through the high school text book “ New Prospects” as sample for the investigation. Several resolutions and recommendations were brought into surface by the interviewed teachers concerning their aspirations about more effective teaching techniques of speaking and communication.