The role of motivation in improving learners' oral production

Abstract

The lack of motivation is considered as one of the basic problems that English learners encounter while communicating. The present work attempts to investigate the role of motivation to improve learners’ oral production. Thus, we intended to find out why English learners have difficulties in holding an appropriate conversation with both teachers and classmates. Moreover, this dissertation highlights the importance of using some motivational and communicative strategies progressed in recent approaches. Also, we intended to shed light on certain difficulties that third-year students of English Department at Biskra University encounter in terms of motivation and communication. Furthermore, we attempted to investigate the data and suggest appropriate solutions to the problems that learners face through depending on two research tools: (a) students’ questionnaire and (b) teachers’ questionnaire, both addressed to students of third-year of English Department at Biskra University and their teachers of oral written expression modules. Through the data gathering tools, we found that because of their lack of motivation, English students in general have difficulties in speaking the language fluently when taking into consideration that they are third-year. Consequently, our study revealed that if English language teachers follow some motivational strategies in teaching, learners’ communicative abilities would improve.