Investigating Teachers and Students’ Attitudes towards theEffectiveness of Communicative Activities in Developing Students’Speaking SkillThe Case of Second Year Liscense Students of English and at MohamedSeddik

Abstract

Nowadays, many researchers claim that through classroom communicative activities, knowledge can be constructed and skills can be developed. Teachers’ roles and responsibilities were changed in the direction of facilitators of the learning and teaching processes. In this context, learners are supposed to be given opportunities to use the language naturally rather than only memorizing dialogues and pattern practices. The present work aimed at showing that communicative activities can be a best pedagogical Strategy to develop not only learners’ speaking skill, but also to foster their capacity to generate new language via interaction. The dissertation in hand exposed issues about the speaking skill and communicative activities in its theoretical part