Developing EFL Students’ Communication Skills through Collaborative Visualisation: An Analysis of Teachers and Master One Students’ Attitudes in the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou.

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2019

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The present study is conducted to investigate teachers’ and students’ attitudes toward promoting EFL students’ communication skills through collaborative visualisation. This research has two main objectives which consist in identifying Master one student’s and their teachers’ attitudes towards the use of collaborative visualisation in the learning process to promote students’ communication skills. In addition to exploring the extent to which collaborative visualisation can help the students to develop their communication skills in English. To do so, the coordination process theory of Erkens (2005) is applied. For the collection of data, 6 structured interviews have been conducted with teachers, 220 questionnaires have been distributed to Master I students but only 130 have been returned.. For the analysis of quantitative data, the rule of three is used; whereas, for the qualitative data, we relied on a descriptive analysis. The findings of students’ questionnaire have revealed that students have positive attitudes toward using collaborative visualisation to promote their communication skills. In addition, the results of the teachers’ interview have shown that teachers do encourage this kind of techniques to improve learning in general and to develop students’ communication skills in particular.

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30cm ; 69p.

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Attitudes, Collaborative Visualisation, Communication Skills, Theory of Coordination Process.

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Language and Communication