The Role of Self-Confidence in Enhancing EFL Learners’ Speaking Skill: Case of First Year Students at Tlemcen University

Abstract

Speaking is the most frequently used language skill. Moreover, English has attained an important status on the international level and become a lingua franca among speakers of languages. This encourages EFL students to learn it. They want to become proficient speakers. However, there are some psychological factors that prevent them from achieving their goal among them there is the lack of selfconfidence...