Students’ Attitudes towards the Implementation of Group Work in Speaking Activities

Abstract

Speaking fluently is based on learning how to communicate smoothly and confidently using a foreign language. However, students still lack oral fluency and they need to overcome their problems. Correspondingly, this study attempts to investigate students’ perceptions towards the implementation of group work in speaking activities. Based on a selective quantitative descriptive method, the research is conducted by means of a questionnaire administered to 99 students among first-year License of department of English language, Guelma university, to determine whether they have positive or negative attitudes towards group work. The results of the findings would provide students with better learning implications to strengthen their speaking skills. On the basis of the obtained results, a number of pedagogical implications would be suggested to solve students’ speaking problems.