Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirementsfor the award of the degree"Licence en langues et littérature anglaises"

Résumé,

This study investigates the ways that are efficient for improving the Speaking fluency, centering my efforts on " Reading" as an important tool to take fluency at a serious high level. To conduct successfully this study, three research questions were formulate. The first question was to know if reading is used as the most important tool for enhancing Bac 3 students speaking, the second was to know if they are in permanent contact with English, through reading, and the third question was to know if their environment does influence them to read.

Data were collected through a questionnaire distributed to students, as well as interviews to the same questionnaire respondents to compare their written answers with their level of performance in oral expression. After the data analysis, it was found that students are aware of the great contribution of reading to speaking fluency that, even if it is not a total permanence in reading, students are in a permanent contact with English, through reading and it was also found that the environment influences them to read, even if the extent to which that reading is done, is still, till now unknown.

To help students of the Department of English Language and Literature become true English speakers, a number of recommendations was directed first to the Ministry of Higher Education, to teachers of secondary schools, to the University administration, to the students themselves, to the Department of English Language and Literature, and to the lectures of Oral Expression Courses of the Department of English Language and Literature.