Investigating the effect of teachers’ leadership on the development of EFL Learners’ communicative skills.

Abstract

This research aims to deal with the effect of teachers’ leadership on the development of EFL Learners’ communicative skills. We administered three hypothesis, the first one says that teachers’ leadership affect the development of EFL students’ communicative skills, the second one suggest that the activities used by leader teachers are Debates, role play, situation samples, group/pair work, games, listing and speaking tasks, and extracurricular activities. And the third hypothesis; there is a significant relationship between teacher’s leadership and the development in EFL student’s communicative skills. In order to do this research, we based on three chapters, two theoretical chapters, and a chapter for the field of work. Both theoretical chapters include an overview of the notion of teachers’ leadership and the relationship between it and communication. As for the third chapter, it is devoted for the analysis and interpretations of the data collection tools and its results. We have presented two questionnaires and one interview as tools to conduct in our research one question and an interview for teachers and one questionnaire for students. The population consist of all and both students and teachers of Ibn Khaldoun University, the English Department that were randomly selected to answer and to be part of our research. Our research findings, shows that teachers’ leadership affects students' communicative skills by helping the teacher to reveal students' difficulties and overcome them in return. It is suggested that in order to develop students’ communicative skills, teachers should develop their leadership skills and devote their time to find solutions to students who struggle to communicate. It suggested that they should be aware of their own deficits and limit them to reach desirable communicative skills.