Investigating Foreign Language Teachers’ and Students’ Attitudes towards Classroom Peer Interaction

Abstract

This research is conducted to clarify, explicate and investigate the degree of importance and role that peer interaction, as a technique of teaching and learning, may play in the process of foreign language learning. Peer interaction turns to be debatable; hence, it has been found worth to work on. Thus, the study aims to investigate teachers and students’ attitudes towards this technique; so, two questionnaires were used as data collection tools; one is structured for teachers; whereas, the other questionnaire is for Master One students in department of English in University of 08 May 1945, Guelma. To conduct this research, the descriptive method was used. What has been inferred and reached from this investigation is that both teachers and students agree on the point that PI plays a key part in the FLL and the teaching process. This opinion is justified by its role in developing students’ fluency, accuracy, autonomy, self confidence, and more than that it ameliorates the students’ way of thinking and dealing with problems encountered in learning. By the end, we highly recommend the future studies to address the areas that could not be covered in this research; these areas are Peer Feedback and the Approaches of Peer Interaction.