The Role of Classroom Interaction in Enhancing EFL Learners’ Communicative Competence

Abstract

The present thesis examines the role of classroom interaction in enhancing third year students’ of English communicative competence at the university level. The major problem of this research lies in the students’ inability to carry on spontaneous communication inside the classroom. This has been a common issue for many teachers as well as researchers. The study’s main purpose is to investigate the crucial role of interaction in enhancing the learners’ communicative competence (CC), as well as helping them to express their needs. Therefore, it aims to help students use purposeful utterances with their peers and the teacher through communication and provide them with some communicative activities to improve their speaking skills. In this case, two questionnaires are given to both third-year students (88) and teachers (7) of oral expression besides classroom observation of two groups at the Department of English. The researchers intend to take their points of view into account concerning the role of classroom interaction in developing a better communicative competence. The study reveals that most teachers believe that for a valuable CC to be built, classroom interaction is needed in using the target language. Learners, as well, need to be exposed to interact with each other and the teacher for accurate and fluent communication. The researchers hypothesize that if students interact with both their peers and the teacher in the classroom, they will succeed in enhancing their oral proficiency. The findings of students’ and teachers’ questionnaires and the classroom observation have revealed that classroom interaction is considered as an important strategy in enhancing EFL learners’ communicative competence.

تتناول هذه الأطروحه مشكل الطلاب في عدم قدرتهم على التواصل بشكل تلقائي داخل القسم؛ غالبا ما يعود ذلك لنقص التواصل فيما بينهم أو مع أستاذهم، لإثبات هذه الفرضية قمنا بتقديم استمارة استبيانية لكل من طلبة الطور الثالث وأساتذة حصص التعبير الشفوي لقسم اللغة الإنجليزية في جامعة أدرار بغية جمع آرائهم حول الموضوع المطروح، الهدف الرئيسي من هذه الأطروحه يكمن في إبراز دور التعليم التفاعلي سواء كان ذلك بين الطلبة والأساتذة أو بين الطلبة أنفسهم. أظهرت النتائج المتحصل عليها أن للتعيلم التفاعلي أهمية كبيرة في اكتساب اللغة وتعزيز الكفاءة التواصلية للمتعلمين، كما أثبتت أن كلا من الأساتذه والطلاب مطلع بشكل واسع على مدى أهميتها داخل القسم.