Improving Students’ Speaking Skill through Communicative Language Teaching Case of Second Year English Students at Belhadj Bouchaib University Centre of Ain Temouchent

Abstract

Communicative Language Teaching has been widely accepted as an effective approach of the teaching of foreign languages in general and the teaching of English in particular. It is introduced in order to improve and develop the quality of teaching and learning and achieve the desire impact on students’ speaking skill, it is prejudiced in favor of native speaker teachers by demanding a relatively uncontrolled range of language use on the part of the students. The main problem underlying this work is that many students are unable to carry on a spontaneous communication using the target language which is mainly due to the traditional methods that are followed by many teachers to teach speaking skill which focus on teaching a set of grammatical rules. Thus this current study aims to investigate the development of students’ speaking skill through the use of communicative language teaching approach CLT.To carry out this research two questionnaires were administered one for teachers of Oral expression and another for second year students at the department of English at Belhadj Bouchaib University Centre to identify and explore their attitudes about the speaking skill, and the communicative approach. The results obtained from the data which were analyzed quantitatively showed that the communicative language teaching is a very effective approach to develop students speaking skill. Finally this study aims at suggesting some strategies, techniques and procedures that may help teachers to teach speaking skill and help English students improve and develop their speaking skill.