Enhancing Efl Learners' Oral Performance Through Teaching Them How To Prepare Effective Presentations

Résumé: Many EFL students find public speaking a daunting task. This can be due to the fact that the majority of EFL teachers at the university of Oum-El-Bouaghi, although they adopt oral presentations, do not teach their students all the techniques of effective presentations. The present study aims to see whether teaching EFL students how to prepare an effective oral presentation would enhance their oral performance. To fulfill the aim of this study, a quasi-experimental study was conducted. Two pre-existing groups of fifty four first-year LMD students of english at the university of Oum-El-Bouaghi were randomly chosen as experimental and control groups. Taking the oral performance as the target of this study, the participants of the two groups were pre-tested through choosing a topic and presenting it in front of their classmates. Then, the experimental group subjects were taught some best tips and techniques of an effective oral presentation, like the opening, speech transition, the closing procedure...etc. However, students of the control group studied following the conventional way. After the treatment period, a post-test was administered to the two groups by giving them the same instruction of the pre-test. The results of the independent sample t-test show that there is a significant difference between the oral performance of the experimental group and that of the control group. Therefore, the hypothesis which stated that teaching EFL learners how to prepare a successful oral presentation would enhance their oral performance is confirmed.

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