Barriers to workshop strategy implementation in oral expression courses : EFL teachers' perspectives

Abstract EN

The aim of the present study is to investigate the barriers of implementing Workshop Strategy faced by EFL Oral Expression teachers at the level of the Department of English, Guelma, Algeria.

It sets forth a discussion about how workshop strategy works and the barriers of its implementation.

To carry out the study, a quantitative research method was adopted and a structured questionnaire was used to collect data.

The sample was composed of ten (10) participants who have taught Oral Expression.

The results demonstrate that the most commonly workshop strategy obstacles are: workshop strategy is efforts demanding, Oral Expression teachers resist to change, insufficient time for lesson presentation, and the difficulty to assign and evaluate groups.

It is then recommended that teachers need to be flexible, aware of their learners' learning styles to easily assign them into groups and evaluate them.