Investigating the Role of Communicative and Cultural Topics on the Conversational Skills of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learners: A Case of Prep School Students

Learning English as foreign language has been a main issue globally, and many countries attempt to utilize the best techniques or methods in order to develop the language skills of EFL learners. In Turkey, most of learners come up with a great deal of difficulties though they start language classes at primary school, and they cannot hold a conversation successfully. Hence, the current study deals with possible solutions for boosting conversational aspects of high school EFL learners. Descriptive analysis of literature on the role of communicative and cultural topics about the conversational skills reveal that learners are feel more motivated to describe something in their culture. Thus, the current study was conducted with 18 prep school students aged between 17 and 19 to find out the efficacy of cultural topics on the development of conversational skills. The main data collection tool is an open-ended questionnaire interrogating participants’ views for adopting cultural topics in the development of conversational skills. The results posited that almost all of the participants are on the idea that cultural topics are really affluent in improving speaking skills because they are able to hold the self-confidence to communicate in the target language and aware of what to claim.