شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The study is mainly concerned with the role of games in developing learners’ speaking skill in private primary schools. It investigates whether games are used and it attempts to determine the extent to which games increase learners’ learning motivation. It also attempts to investigate the way games encourage learners’ interaction and communication. The experiment is conducted in two private primary schools in Tizi Ouzou (Assales school and Ithri school). The study relies on two different frameworks; game-based learning approach and social constructivism theory of learning. It adopts the mixed-methods approach. Thus, an interview was conducted with two teachers and a questionnaire has been distributed to sixty-seven pupils. The data analysis is based on statistical tools to clear up numerical data along with qualitative content analysis (QCA) for the interpretation and explanation of the results. According to the obtained results, it is concluded that games motivate learners to a high extent. The results also reveal that games provide learners with opportunities to interact and communicate, and develop their speaking skill as a result of learning through experience. The findings that are obtained through this investigation will pave the way to further researches in this area of study. (Author’s abstract)