Lakhasly

Teaching and Learning academic speaking is considered to be a crucial step at the learners' level, particularly for pupils at Primary School.For that reason, the current study was conducted to explore the difficulties that face EFL pupils in their speaking performance, and the effectiveness of the YoTube educational videos in enhancing their speaking skill.Finally, according to the findings of the current research, we validate our hypothesis which states that YouTube Educational Videos enhance EFL pupils' speaking skill.Throughout the first chapter, the researcher attempts to highlight the most important elements related to the importance of YouTube educational videos.In general, the results and analysis of the interview have shown that EFL pupils have difficulties in speaking skills, which affects negatively pupils' language proficiency particularly Third Year of primary school.

Teaching and Learning academic speaking is considered to be a crucial step at the learners' level, particularly for pupils at Primary School. For that reason, the current study was conducted to explore the difficulties that face EFL pupils in their speaking performance, and the effectiveness of the YoTube educational videos in enhancing their speaking skill. Our study divided into three chapters; the first two chapter about the threoretical part whereas, the third chapter is about the practical part.

The first chapter is devoted to the literature review. Throughout the first chapter, the researcher attempts to highlight the most important elements related to the importance of YouTube educational videos. In the second chapter, we have dealt with an overview of speaking skill and its main elements (definitions, strategies, types and the main components of speaking skill and their difficulties).

The third chapter is devoted to the fieldwork which represents the practical part of our study in which; teacher's interview has been used as data-gathering tool to validate our research hypothesis. The teacher's interview was administered to (6) teachers have been teaching English at primary school as the first experience in different schools in Sidi Khaled.

In general, the results and analysis of the interview have shown that EFL pupils have difficulties in speaking skills, which affects negatively pupils' language proficiency particularly Third Year of primary school. Therefore, teachers must be more aware of the effectiveness of YouTube educational videos as teaching tools both inside and outside classrooms. Finally, according to the findings of the current research, we validate our hypothesis which states that YouTube Educational Videos enhance EFL pupils' speaking skill.