Résumé:
This work highlights the important role of using technology outside the classroom in
enhancing students’ speaking skill. Firstly, the current study gives a general overview
about the speaking skill. Secondly, it provides a theoretical background about the role of
technology inside the classroom as a tool for teaching and learning a foreign language,
and outside the classroom as a means to develop learners’ speaking skill. It is
hypothesized in this research that, Teachers and students may have positive attitudes
towards the role of using technology beyond the classroom in enhancing the speaking
skill. To check this hypothesis, two questionnaires are administered to both teachers and
Master one students at Department of Letters and English Language, University of 8
Mai 1945, Guelma during the academic year (2017-2018), in order to see the extent to
which they are interested in using technology inside the classroom to facilitate teaching
and learning process, and their attitudes towards the role of using modern technologies
beyond the classroom in improving the speaking skill. The findings indicate that
students face many difficulties while speaking, mainly because of the limited
opportunities to practice the language inside and outside the classroom. Both teachers
and students see that modern technologies help in improving one’s speaking skill. From
these results, it is concluded that there is a positive relationship which exists between
using technology outside the classroom and the speaking skill; as a result, teachers and
students have a positive attitudes towards the role of using technology outside the
classroom in enhancing the speaking skill. Finally, it is recommended that teachers
should raise learners’ awareness towards the use of technology beyond the classroom to
ameliorate their oral communication, and students also should benefit from modern
technologies outside the classroom in enhancing their speaking skill.
