Investigating Teachers And Students Perceptions Towrards The Effect Of Students Self-selected Topics On Improving Their Writing Performance

Résumé: Research into learners' perceptions towards learning english as a foreign language has received considerable attention during the last decade. Writing is considered as the major skill to be developed for learning a foreign language. The integration of students' choice and interests in the process of teaching writing can be a good way to motivate learners to write. The present research aims at studying the effect of self-selected topics on improving the writing performance of second year LMD students of english as a foreign language at the department of english, university of Oum-El-Bouaghi. It is hypothesized that allowing students to self-select their own topics in writing classes has a positive effect on improving their writing performance. The descriptive method has been adopted through the use of two questionnaires; one for sixty students and the other for twenty teachers. The questionnaires were analyzed and compared. The results of both questionnaires show that students are more motivated and encouraged to write when they get the right to choose their own topics in writing classes. In the light of these results, the research hypothesis is confirmed in that students need to be provided with this opportunity because it helps them in improving their writing performance by increasing their motivation and their willingness to write.

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