مجلة الباحث في العلوم الإنسانية و الإجتماعية
Volume 12, Numéro 5, Pages 433-440
2020-09-15

Learning With Digital: The Impact Of Integrating Ict On Students' Speaking Proficiency

Authors : Mohammed Ghedeir Brahim .

Abstract

Summary: The present study discusses how ICT can be used effectively in tertiary education to enhance the speaking skills of EFL learners. This research work puts the spotlight on the potentials and limitations of integrating ICT in teaching oral expression for the students of second-year English at the University of Hamma Lakhdar, El-Oued, Algeria. The purpose of this paper is to investigate, interpret and analyze the methods used by teachers in order to enhance students' English skills and to provide suggestions as to how to use ICT more productively to enhance mainly their speaking skills. It also sheds light on the difficulties encountered by teachers in integrating those technologies in teaching oral expression. Seeking to achieve the aims of the study, two questionnaires have been administered to both students and teachers. Five (05) teachers experienced the teaching of oral expression in addition to twenty (20) students of second-year English have been chosen randomly. The findings of this study show that ICT is directly beneficial to enhance learners speaking skills as well as autonomous learning and learner motivation.

Keywords

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Speaking skills, EFL students, Teaching, Learning.