Problems in Teaching English Conversational Interaction

Problems in Teaching English Conversational Interaction

Nadia F. Qawasmi The study aim to investigate the need for providing more opportunities that stimulate students to participate in actual conversational interaction and the need for a natural atmosphere and comfortable setting are created for teaching English conversational interaction. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to 175 students for Beir Ziet, AN-Najah, Bethlehem and Hebron Universities. To ensure the validity of the questionnaire it was given to five specialists. The reliability for the questionnaire was 0.87. The results of the study showed that the students do not have enough opportunities to practice English in their daily life, and the students who misunderstand the speech of native speakers of English considered pronunciation as the major obstacle, and the heavily reliance on the teacher in class makes it difficult for the learners to interact  with native speakers of English outside the classroom. Nadia F. Qawasmi Supervisors Dr. Ali Habayeb Dr. Rami Hamadallah 1995 Zajel / An-Najah National University