Exploring students' perceptions towards the integration of English podcasts into EFL classrooms to enhance their pronunciation skills: Case of First Year EFL Students at the University of Bejaia

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الملخص

Learning a foreign language requires mastering its four main skills, including reading,listening, writing and speaking. This latter involves pronunciation, which is a language aspectthat is often regarded as a hurdle by many EFL learners. Having a correct pronunciation isconsidered crucial that is why many foreign language learners want to acquire it and improveit as much as possible. However, only a few teaching programs are included to target thisskills. In light of this, the current thesis aims to explore first-year EFL learners' perceptionstowards the use of English podcasts in the purpose of enhancing their pronunciation since itinvolves exposure to native speakers. In order to accomplish this goal, this study follows anon-experimental design, implemented with 60 first-year BA students of English as ForeignLanguage at the University of Bejaia. Moreover, it employs a mixed method, which bases onboth quantitative and qualitative tools for the data collection; the study method employs astudents' questionnaire as a quantitative research tool; while, it uses an online interviewposted for teachers of English at the same university to investigate their perspectivesconcerning the issue under study. The findings disclosed positive attitudes of the participantsregarding the implementation of this new material to enhance EFL students' pronunciationbecause it can be practical, enjoyable and interesting while creating opportunities to listen tonative speakers in the educational field. The teachers' perceptions also were positive as thedata revealed. The study entails some suggestion for an advantageous use of podcast in EFL classrooms.

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التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

fda00b47-1cdb-46c3-8504-e4c5624e7e4f

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0

نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

ماستر (LMD)

نوع الملف

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أسماء الملفات

923914_1.pdf

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ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

Exploring students' perceptions towards the integration of English podcasts into EFL classrooms to enhance their pronunciation skills: Case of First Year EFL Students at the University of Bejaia

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كلمات الباحثين

English as a foreign language: EFL Learners: Pronunciation Native speakers: English podcasts: Language teaching and learning

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

سيحة بوغاني

الإعداد

صابرينة انيس, ليندا بن عمارة

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية