Teaching Oral Skills to Tunisian EFL Learners in the LMD System: The Frustrating Reality

Mohamed Hajjej

Abstract


All over the world, English has rapidly become the main medium of communication both locally and globally. Therefore, it is essential to take the teaching and learning of English language seriously especially for communication purposes to meet various needs and to pace up with worldwide demands for English language skills.

Despite its central position as a crucial component of second language learning and teaching, teaching speaking has been undervalued for many years even though today's world requires that the goal of teaching speaking should be improving English users’ communicative skills.

Reflecting on a personal experience, this paper sets out to document the real situation of teaching oral skills to Tunisian EFL Learners in the LMD System. It is hoped that this paper explores the impact of the system requirements on both learners’ proficiency and teachers’ performance and ability to teach this basic component of English language, investigates difficulties faced by learners to develop and promote their oral skills and provides recommendations on how to enable both teachers to refine their teaching of oral skills and learners to speak in the best way possible.


Keywords


Communicative Purposes, Oral Skills, Proficiency, LMD System

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v43.1.6044

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