A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree " Licencié en Langue et Littérature Anglaises"

Truly speaking, the English language occupies a dominant position in the world. Today, too many people use English as native speakers or those who have learnt it and use it as a second language and foreign language. English is, thus, the main language used in most books, most newspapers, airport and airtraffic control, international business, most academic conferences ...

The purpose of this study is to determine how extra-curricular language activities enable the learner to reinforce his linguistic competence and to make his perfomance better. In fact, learners of English as a second or foreign language face a lot of problems.

All those problems are caused by a lack of enough language exposure. Most of the time, pupils do not access to the foreign language outside the classroom. Even in class, the time parted to English as a foreign language is not enough.

A second or foreign language learner should therefore be surrounded by the language he is learning both inside and outside the classroom. Still, he should not only get surrounded by a language, but he should also use the language both inside and outside the classroom.

A number of secondary school teachers and pupils has been used to investigate their attitudes toward extra-curricular materials and outside classroom practice in the improvement of fluency of English language learners in Burundi.

Finally, the attitudes of both teachers and pupils were positive. They have all agreed on the importance of class model and outside classroom opportunities.