A Dissertation Submitted of Requirements for the Awards of the Degree "Licence en Langue et Littérature Anglaises"

ABSTRACT,

Nowadays,English language occupies a dominant position in the word.Even technology and working world use English.Today too many people use English as native speakers or some people have learnt it and use it as second and foreign language.English is,therefore ,the main language used in international business,most academic conferences,most books ,newspapers...The purpose of this study is to find out some factors behind poor performance among students in some Burundian secondary schools.In fact,learners of English as a foreign or second language face many problems.
Those problems are caused among others by the lack of appropriate methodology and communicative activities to enable students improve their communicative competence.Many students are note familiar with English use outside the classroom.Therefore,second language learner should be surrounded by the language both inside and outside the classroom.He should also use the language both inside and outside the classroom.A number of secondary school students and teachers had been used to investigate their attitudes towards factors affecting students oral communicative competence in English.Finally,students and teachers have pointed that the fact of not being accustomed to the English use outside the classroom and the ignorance of oral practice were among the factors that affect students' communicative competence