Teachers' And Students' Attitudes Towards The Role Of Group Work Technique In Enhancing Students' Oral Performance

Résumé: The process of teaching English as a Foreign Language is too important and it focuses, especially, on the interactive. One of the main four skills which learners need to develop and improve is speaking skill. This study aims at investigating teachers' and learners attitudes towards the role of group work technique in enhancing students' oral performance to first year LMD students of English as a foreign language at the department of English, University of Oum El Bouaghi. We hypothesized that teachers and students have a positive attitudes towards group work technique in enhancing students' oral performance. The present study attempts to find an attachment between two variables group work as teaching technique and its role in enhancing students' oral performance. The descriptive method has been adopted through the use of two questionnaires: one for students and another for teachers who have taught English Language at the department of English, Larbi Ben M'hidi University, Oum El Bouaghi. Questionnaires were analyzed and compared. The results of both questionnaires show that group work is a functional technique for enhancing students' oral performance, i.e. speaking skill. In the light of these results, our hypothesis is assured in that students need to be provided with this technique because it encourages them to develop their speaking skill, and it creates suitable situations where they can use and exchange the language delightedly, and without hesitation.

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