Exploring Teachers’ and Students’ Attitudes towards Students’ Self-Selected Topics in Improving their Speaking Skill

Abstract

The present study aims to explore the influence of students’ self-selected topics on improving their speaking skill. It is mainly concerned with finding whether the opportunity of topic self-selection has anything to do with the students’ speaking quality. The basic hypothesis adopted in this dissertation is whether allowing students to self-select their topics has a positive influence on improving their speaking performance. In order to achieve the aim of the present study, the research methodology adopted is descriptive. Two questionnaires were administered; The first questionnaire was distributed to a sample of sixty (60) third year LMD students, while the second one was given to ten (10) teachers who teach oral expression inthe department of English,atMohammed Seddik Ben Yahia university- Jijel. The results obtained revealed that students’ self-selection of topics has a great influence on improving their speaking skill. On the light of those results, the hypothesis was confirmed and thus students need to be granted with the opportunity to select their preferable topics to ameliorate their performance and exercise speaking fluently anywhere and atany time.