Examining the Effects of Using Authentic Materials to Promote EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency. The Case of First Year English Students at University of M’sila

Abstract

ABSTRACT Enhancing English as a Foreign Language students’ oral expression is said to be a hard task. Therefore, The question of whether applying authentic materials to improving English as a Foreign Language learners’ speaking proficiency has been specifically a subject of study for many researchers. The aim of the current study is to investigate the effectiveness of using authentic materials on developing students’ speaking proficiency. In this humble research, speaking skill, which plays an important role in teaching English as a Foreign Language, is focused upon. A group of learners that are selected from first year degree represents the sample of the study .The hypothesis of the dissertation that will be confirmed or rejected is whether the implementation of authentic resources would have an effect on promoting first year students’ speaking skill at The University of Msila. In order to test this hypothesis and to answer the questions that are asked in this modest dissertation, some tools have been chosen to reach the intended goals. These instruments are questionnaires: one is oriented to students and another one is designed for teachers .The descriptive method is followed because it is the most appropriate one .Since there is a limitation in this study; the descriptive method best suits the objectives of this research. After analyzing the teachers’ and the students’ questionnaires , it can be noticed that the teachers advocate the idea of integrating authentic materials and the students show a high satisfaction about these materials.