Investigating Factors that Affect Students’ Speaking Performance : Case of EFL First -year LMD Students of Tlemcen university.

Abstract

The present study attempts to investigate the main factors affecting E.F.L students ‘ speaking performance at Tlemcen university .The researcher used descriptive and analytic methods .For the later , a questionnaire was addressed to forty EFL learners and an interview was administred to six teachers at the English department of Tlemcen university .From the obtained findings , the researcher has come to the point that both teachers and learners should be strongly aware of the significance of psychological , linguistic , and pedagogical factors since they are a real obstacles on the students’ way towards successful oral communication .Our dissertation consists of two fundamental chapters , the first one is a theoritical part which includes a demonstration of the major speaking barriers starting from the psychological and linguistic untill reaching the pedagogical difficulties that hinder the students’ oral production during oral English classes. Therefore , the practical part deals with the methodology adopted to investigate through a questionnaire and an interview that were used in this study . Learners need to obtain some speaking sub-skills and take into consideration their fears towards speaking in order to overcome these difficulties and jump into a better oral production performance. The revealed data recommend some techniques and procedures that EFL teachers and learners need to work with to get rid off these hindrances in speaking English.