Investigating the relationship between the learners’ oral performance and teachers’ negative feedback : the case of first year LMD students’, university of Bejaia

Abstract

Spoken language production is often considered as one of the most difficult aspects of language learning (Brown and Yule, 1983). Actually, many language learners find it difficult to express themselves orally in the target language, as; each student presents a specific situation regarding the cognitive knowledge in the target language, the learning styles and strategies as well as the teaching methods, approaches and evaluation. The research work at hand is directed toward exploring the connection between the teachers’ negative feedback as a crucial part of the learning process and learners’ oral performance. According to our prior data assembled through classroom observation; we noticed that the targeted population gets frustrated when required to produce orally...