OPINIONS OF THE STUDENTS OF FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING ABOUT SPEAKING SKILLS

With the globalization and the researches carried out by European Council, speaking a foreign language became an essential point. It is clearly seen that communication role of a foreign language teaching has become gradually important. But speaking skills are the most difficult tasks for learners to develop. This study aims to reveal whether the learners are aware of the importance of speaking skills and whether they have some suggestions for speaking courses as well as to determine the principal inconvenience which prevents them from speaking the language. For this study, 40 French preparatory class students were chosen and interviewed. The registered interviews were transcribed through a text treatment programme. Then the answers were classified and it was noticed that the learners wanted especially to use dialogues more frequently and to participate in more ludic games and want the teacher to deal with them more individually. The majority of the students think that the factors which affect more their achivement in speaking are the fear of making mistakes, lack of self confidence and the lack of vocabulary. The error which was considered previously as an negativity in language learning teaching, it is assessed today with unimportant source on behalf of the betterment of teachers. At the end of the study, some suggestions were given for a biter teaching of speaking skills