Strategies to Foster Students’ Self-Esteem in Speaking Skills Case study: first year LMD students of English at CHEDLI BEN DJEDID EL TARF University.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the English students’ self-esteem and their speaking skills, and also to raise teachers’ awareness about the importance of self- esteem in the success of learners’ speaking skill. Accordingly, two groups at the department of English CHEDLI BEN DJEDID University are selected randomly to describe their high self-esteem , this is done by checking responses through handing questionnaire to be completed to measure self-esteem. This research work is based on the hypothesis if learners have a high level of self-esteem, they will be able to trust their own abilities which in turn will increase their level of oral skill production. The most suitable method to this study is the descriptive method and in order to describe the relationship between the two variables. This study is mainly based on two questionnaires addressed to both oral expression teachers and first year LMD learners to see their view points about the importance of high level of self-esteem in enhancing the speaking skill. The analysis of the questionnaires’ results revealed that both teachers and learners strongly support the importance of self-esteem as an affective factor in improving the oral production performance.