Investigating the Role of Students’ Self Confidence in Enhancing Their Speaking Skill: the case of First Year LMD Students in the Department of English at MouloudMammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
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Date
2019
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
The current study investigates the importance of students’ self-confidence in enhancing their
speaking skill. It is done under the social cognitive theory of self-efficacy proposed by Albert
Bandura (1977). This research is centred around three main objectives, the first objective is
based on proving the role of self-confidence in developing students’speaking skill especially
the first year students at the department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-
Ouzo. Second, it consists in raising students’ and teachers awareness about the importance
and effectiveness of self-confidence. Third, it deals with the main causes behind students’ lack
of self-confidence and its influence on students’ speaking skill. To reach these aims, we have
opted for the use of the mixed- method research. In order to collect the relevant data for this
research we have opted for the use of two main tools.A questionnaire is delivered to 100
students and a twelve Classroom observation sessions. The statistical method SPSS is used for
the quantitative data analysis while qualitative content analyses is adopted to interpret the
results of classroom observation. The obtained results have shown that high level of selfconfidence
enhance first year students’ speaking abilities. The majority of the students have
confirmed that they feel shy and afraid of making mistakes in class; thus these psychological
factorsinfluence negatively their self-confidence which later on affects their oral
performance. Finally the results of classroom observation have revealed that self-confidence
plays a major role in students’ academic achievement.
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30cm ; 54p.
Keywords
Performance, self-confidence, speaking skill, self-efficacy, social cognitive theory of self-efficacy
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Didactics of Foreign Languages