The Importance of Oral Presentation in Learning the Speaking Skill

Abstract

The main goal of teaching and learning English is to develop the ability of using this global language in communicative context. Hence, developing the ability to communicate requires lot of efforts from both teachers and students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Also, many activities need to be used in order to become fluent speakers of English. Additionally, the Communicative Language Teaching Approach (CLTA) provided an important activity for teaching and learning the speaking skill, which is Oral Presentation (OP) is a learner-centered activity and one of the most frequently employed activity in EFL classes, especially at the university environment. In this regard, this study attempts to confirm the hypothesis of the research, which posits that teachers and students at the Department of English in the University of 08 Mai 1945-Guelma emphasize the importance of OP for teaching/learning the speaking skill. A case study was conducted with the use of the quantitative method, two questionnaires were administered to Master One teachers 07 out of 15 and students 30 out of 150 from the Department of English University 08 Mai 1945-Guelma. The results confirm the research hypothesis, which posits that Teachers and students at the department of English in Guelma University consider oral presentation important for teaching/learning or developing the speaking skill, in which the findings show that both Master One teachers and students are aware of the positive correlation between OP and teaching/learning the speaking skill. Furthermore, it can be noticed from the findings that OP can be one of the best used pedagogical activity in both processes of teaching and learning speaking, because it facilitates for teachers their process of teaching and progresses students’ level of speaking proficiency