Developing EFL Timid learners' speaking skill through useful strategies.

Abstract

Nowadays, EFL shy learners can present challenges for teachers during the learning process. Their educational attainment will be lower than their friends and they will have difficulties in social inclusion. Here comes the teachers’ role, which would be to provide useful strategies to engage shy learners’ in the learning process. This study aims at enhancing the student's speaking skill. Likewise , to detect the most effective communicative activities that is used to improve the oral proficiency. In addition, to elicit the attitudes of EFL students towards the use of communicative activities as a tool to promote their speaking skill. The sample chosen for this research is from first year Master LMD students in the department of English at the University of Ibn khaldoun- Tiaret . For the purpose of investigating the improving EFL shy learners’ speaking skill through effective communicative activities and strategies. In addition, The choice of method was determined by the nature of the study and since the research is an exploratory research, the methods were based on quantitative data. Thus, the researcher used a questionnaires for two samples the First year master LMD students and their teachers to achieve the purpose. The findings of this study confirm the two hypothesis which assume the enhance of students' speaking skill through effective communicative activities. Also, the satisfaction and positive attitudes of EFL learners towards the implementation of these activities in learning process. This work is tailoring the most important recommendations in the hopes of assisting learners and teachers in foreign oral language classrooms in better understanding some of the speaking activities, in order to enhance students’ fluency. And maintaining a pleasant atmosphere, encouraging shy learners to achieve better results with their speaking skill.