Improving the Students' Speaking Skill Through the use ofudEnglish Songs.udA Case Study of First Year Students at the Department ofudEnglish. University of Batna

摘要

Acquiring an acceptable amount of vocabulary items so as to speak comfortablyudand fluently English is one of the needs of the students at the department of English,uduniversity of Batna. Actual practices in classrooms, however, reflect a continuingudundermining of how to acquire vocabulary and how to memorize it for any futureudspeaking situation. The present topic of research is an attempt to examine the role thatudEnglish songs, as the alternative teaching strategy to the Oral Expression course, mightudhave on improving students' achievement in the speaking skill. The results obtainedudhave shown that applying songs as a teaching strategy revealed to be very successful.udThe students who were taught, Oral Expression, using songs achieved better progressudthan the students who were taught in the traditional way. The experimental results led usudassert the significance of the Oral Expression course in the language classroom and ofudthe positive impact that songs have on students' accomplishment in the speaking skill.udSongs are very significant tools to develop the students' linguistic oral proficiency. Theyudoffer a relaxing atmosphere, enhance both listening and speaking activities and developudthe students' linguistic knowledge of vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar as well