Exploring the Difficulties Facing EFL Students ‘Participation in Oral Expression Course The Case of Second-Year LMD Students at University of Ghardaia

Abstract

The present work seeks to investigate the difficulties that prevent EFL learners from participating in class, Therefore, it introduces some techniques and strategies to enhance and promote students’ participation and develop their abilities and skills. It is an attempt to explore the problems that hinder students from participating like lack of vocabulary, shyness and so on. We choose as a case study second-year LMD students and teachers of oral expression course at department of English at University of Ghardaia, the data will be collected from different sources through the use of two instruments including a questionnaire administered to second-year English foreign language students, and an interview with oral expression teachers. The data will be analyzed relying on a mixed approach which combines both quantitative and qualitative methods, the obtained results indicate that there are some problems that hinder students from participating, Therefore, some strategies and techniques were presented to enhance the students’ participation in oral expression course.