The use of some aspects of the communicative language teaching as cooperative learning, video watching and interaction for effective linguistics instruction

Abstract

This research aims to study the effects of the effective selection of some aspects of the Communicative Approach, including interaction, communication activities and group work, to teach linguistics to a randomly selected sample of freshment students in the Department of English at Oum Bouaghi University. In this line, it was hypothesised that if linguistics was taught through the application of some aspects of the Communicative Language Teaching as cooperative learning, intercation and video watching students will feel more motivated and better involved in the course study. To achieve the research objectives, two groups of freshments students of English at Om Bouaghi University were decided as the sample of this study. In this study, frour tools of research were adopted: students’ questionnaire, teachers’ interview, classroom observation and students’ test. Two questionnaires were distributed to the students at the end of the academic year. The first questionnaire was designed to evaluate the students' views about the subject of linguistics and the content they were exposed to during the managed courses.The second questionnaire was administered to clarify the relationship between the students and their linguistics teacher to determine the effects of this relationship on their learning of the material. As for the teachers’ interview, the aim was to know the methodologies on which each teacher of linguistics depends to ensure that the information is successfully transmitted to the learner in addition to the possibility of altering some changes in their teaching mehod to cover some of the aspects that were proposed in this study. The test, on the other hand, aims to assess the extent to which students were learned some course elements they were exposed to during the academic year.In such experimental research, emphasis was put on how to better understand the content of linguistics. Thus, our statistics showed that some issues, such as if the traditional methods tend to cause problems during the teaching of linguistics; how the use of some aspects of the Communicative Teaching Method can contribute to a more effective teaching of linguistics; or whether the modern method of teaching contributes to raising students’ motivation to learn, were proven positively. The results of this research indicated that the more interaction in the linguistics class, the more learning takes place. Understanding the content of linguistics with the help of the selected aspects of the research guaranteed an engaged audience. Therefore, learners were integrated with knowledge themselves. That is to say that the alternative teaching method to teaching linguistics succeeded at making students understand and enjoy their courses.