The Effect of Group Work on EFL Learners’ Oral Interaction Development : The Case of EFL Teachers at the Secondary Schools of Bejaia City Center

Abstract

The lack of using cooperative learning particularly group works in the Algerian ELTprogrammes has resulted less interactional skills development and it still encounter difficulties to be developed. Thus represents lack of empirical evidence about the efficiency of group work activities for the development of the oral interaction in the Algerian context. In addition to this, few detailed descriptions of the patterns of oral interaction in EFL classes are known The objective of this study is to explore the effect of group work on EFL learners’ oral interaction developmentand how the use of group work activities influences the development of oral interaction inside and outside classroom situations