Can Shadowing Enhance Efl Learners' Oral Performance' A Case Study

This study aims at probing the relationship between shadowing and speaking. In this respect, it has been hypothesised that EFL learners can boost their speaking ability if they emulate a particular recorded material. To attain this aim, a mixed-methods approach, particularly its one-group pretest-posttest design, was adopted as a quantitative approach and a quasi-experiment research strategy. The latter was conducted on 16 participants selected purposely from third year students of English in the University of Biskra, as a case study in our research. Additionally, a questionnaire was administred to a sample after the assignment on this experiment. Video recordings had potential value in the data collection and analysis as being a direct record of the issues of all the stages of the experiment. Therefore, the results of t-test paired two-sample for means and those of the questionnaire revealed that shadowing helps EFL learners to improve their speaking skill.