Investigating the Impact of Tongue Twisters Use on EFL Students’ Speaking Fluency.

Abstract

The present dissertation seeks to reveal one of the most relevant issues that the majority of students face at the process of learning the English language in terms of speaking skills. At the level of this latter, EFL Students tend to come against a lot of obstacles concerning the achievement of the satisfactory level, especially the oral ones. Therefore, both teachers and learners primary aim at finding modern solutions and motivated methods in order to develop the learners’ speaking skills in terms of fluency and pronunciation. To that end, the objective of this study is to determine the efficacy of utilizing tongue twisters as a method of improving one's pronunciation in order to see what kind of results it produces. In order to carry out this investigation, a questionnaire and an interview were prepared; the one is given to First Year BMD students, while the second was conducted with five EFL tenured instructors at IbnKhaldoun University Tiaret who are in charge of the oral expression module. According to the collected data, students in their first year of BMD did not make use of tongue twisters, and some of them did not even have a background of the word "tongue twisters." In addition, comments were made by both the instructors and the students about how successful this method is throughout the class because it makes the lesson more difficult. On the basis of these findings, we will provide teachers and students of English as a foreign language with some thoughtful suggestions and recommendations.