Résumé:
The speaking skill became a crucial part of the language learning process since one of its
major goals is gaining communicative efficiency. Thus, the foremost aim behind conducting
this study is to explore students’ perceptions in regards to the effectiveness of oral instruction
in enhancing the speaking skill, and to determine the factors that hinder the students’
participation in oral tasks. Accordingly, the dissertation in hand is based on the hypotheses
that learners will report unsatisfactory attitudes and perceptions if they find insufficiency in
the development of their speaking abilities and that the curriculum adopted in teaching this
skill has some weaknesses and lacks efficiency. For the sake of testing these two hypotheses,
a descriptive design was implemented in which a questionnaire has been administered to
seventy (70) first year Master students of English at Mohammed Seddik-Ben Yehia
University, but sixty two (62) students answered the questionnaire. The findings showed that
students reported negative attitudes toward the curriculum currently in use in teaching oral
expression module. To put it concisely, the research hypotheses were confirmed and the oral
instruction curriculum lacks a variety of interactive tasks and communicative skills.
