Investigating Teachers' Students' Attitudes Twowards The Use Of Praise In Enhancing Efl Students' Oral Fluency

Résumé: Students of english suffer from a real problem which is the inability to speak fluently. That was the reason that led teachers to look for an effective strategy to be used in their classrooms in order to motivate their students and help them improve their oral fluency. This research work sheds light on one strategy that is proved to be effective in raising motivation that is the praise strategy. It aims at investigating teachers' and students' attitudes towards the use of praise in the english language classrooms and seeing whether praise has any significant impact on promoting students' oral fluency at Larbi Ben M'Hidi university, department of english. Forty (40) third year LMD students and twenty (20) teachers at the english department were chosen to participate in this work. The students were randomly chosen from a population that consisted of third year english LMD students of the academic year 2014-2015. To collect data for analysis, two questionnaires were distributed for both teachers and students. The results of the present study show that the praise strategy with its types is a useful, helpful and effective strategy that raises students' self confidence and self esteem, reduces their fears, and motivates them to speak fluently.

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