Enhancing the Algerian EFL Learners’ Speaking Skills: A Case Study

Abstract

The proliferation of approaches, methods, and techniques in foreign language teaching contexts, is more and more viewed as an urgent need to remedy the low achievement of our EFL learners. Traditionally speaking, much more emphasis has been put on writing and reading at the expense of speaking skills, which is in fact a pre-requisite in a modern approach to language learning, particularly in the field of modern ELT where great attentions are, nowadays, oriented towards the communicative properties of the target language.

In this context, this article explores into the main difficulties our EFL learners encounter; and thus, the core attempt of this contribution is to alleviate these difficulties by introducing some alternative activities that can enhance their oral practice in a safe environment.