Exploring the impacts of group work on efl learners' speaking performance in Benin: the case study of CEG sodohome in the region of Zou

• Dedication
  
• Ackowledgements
  
• List of Acronyms
  
• Summary
  
• Resumé
  
• Table of Content
  
• Introduction
  
• CHAPTER ONE: THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE STUDY
  
• Chapter One: The Identification of the Study
  
  • 1.4 Research Questions
    
  • 1.5 Hypothesis
    
• CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
  
• Chapter Two: Literature Review
  
• Section One: Considerations about Group Work
  
• Section Two: The Use of Group Work
  
• CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY
  
• Chapter Three: Methodology of the Study
  
  • 3.1Methods
    
  • 3.2 Target Population
    
  • 3.3 Sample Population
    
  • 3.4 Techniques Used for Data Collection
    
  • 3.4.1 Questionnaires
    
  • 3-4-2 Class Observation
    
  • 3.4.3 Interviews
    
• CHAPTER FOUR: PRESENTANTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE RESEARCH FINDINGS
  
• Chapter Four: Presentation and Analysis of the Research Findings
  
  • 4.1. Presentation and Analysis of the Results
    
  • 4.1.1. Presentation and Analysis of the Results to Students' Questionnaire
    
  • 1-Have you ever heard about Group Work Language Learning Technique?
    
• TableA.1: Students' Familiary with Group Work
  
  • 2- Which strategy do you prefer during speaking activities ?
    
• Figure A1: Students' Preference of Strategy in Oral class
  
  • 3-Do you find it difficult to work with your classmates in gruop?
    
• Figure A2: Difficulties encountered by students when working in group.
  
  • 4-Do you think that Group Work Technique help to improve your oral communication skills ?
    
• Table A2: Students' thought of group work strategy
  
  • 5-The most important skill that students need to improve most in the process of English learning?
    
• Table A.3: Focus on the most important skill in language learning
  
• TableA.4 : Importance of Oral skill in the learning of language
  
  • 7-Which activity does your teacher use most ?
    
• TableA.5 : Type of activities that teacher used most in EFL classes
  
  • 8-How do you find English communicative ability ?
    
• TableA.6 : Students' perception about English communicative difficulty
  
  • 9-Why do you feel afraid to speak during the English classes?
    
• Table A.7: Causes for the students inability to speak during English classes.
  
  • 4.1.2 Presentation and Analysis of the Results Related to Teachers' Questionnaire
    
• Table B.1 : Category of teachers
  
• Table B.2 : Teachers' qualification
  
• Table B.3:Teaching experience
  
• Table B.4 : Teachers' use of group work strategy in their EFL classes
  
  • 2- Which of the following techniques do you use most in your classrooms ?
    
• Table B.5: Information about the teachers'use of teaching techniques
  
  • 3-How often do you use group work when teaching in your EFL classes ?
    
• Table B.6 : The frequency of the teachers' use of group work when teaching in EFL class.
  
  • 4-How many students do you often put in each group ?
    
• Table B.7: The number of students teachers use to form a group.
  
  • 5-On which basis do you set up the groups in your classes ?
    
• Table B8: Group work formation strategies
  
  • 6-Do you think that group work technique improves learners' oral proficiency ?
    
• FigureB.1 : Teachers' perception about the significance of group work on the improvement of students' oral proficiency.
  
  • 7-Where do you find difficult in the teaching of the speaking skill ?
    
• Table B.9: The most difficult elements needed in the teaching of speaking ability.
  
  • 8-How do you motivate your students to communicate orally in language class ?
    
  • 4.2 The Analysis of Class Observations and Interviews
    
  • 4.2.1 Results from Class Observations
    
  • 4.2.2 Results from Interviews
    
  • 4.4Discussion of the Findings
    
• At this stage, based on the analyses from the presentation of the the finding mostly the questionnaire, the classroom observation and the interview, the interpretation of the findings were made by categorizing the findings related to each research question.
  
  • 4.4.1 The effectiveness of group work technique on the development of students' speaking ability
    
  • 4.4.2 Activities used to teach speaking in group work context
    
  • 4.4.3 Achievement in communicative competence through group work
    
• CHAPTER FIVE: SUGGESTIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION
  
• Chapter Five: Suggestion and Recommendations
  
  • 5.1 Suggestions
    
  • 5.1.1 Suggestions toStudents
    
  • 5.1.2 Suggestions to Teachers
    
  • 5.2. Recommendations
    
  • 5.2.1 Recommendations to the government
    
  • 5.2.2 Recommendations to the school authorities
    
  • 5.2.1Recommendations to Teachers
    
• 5.2.4 Recommendations to Learners
  
• Conclusion
  
• REFERENCE LIST
  
• Reference List
  
• Annex Pages