The Future of Education

  Very recently, the Ministry of Moroccan Higher Education starts to consider the mastery of English language not only a must for postgraduate students but also a condition for obtaining a doctorate. However, in spite of the great effort made, without doubt, by teachers, learners themselves, scholars, researchers and academic to achieve an acceptable level of English oral communication among current graduates. There remain few challenges and constraints regarding speaking and presenting in an academic context. Thus 65 % of current Moroccan PhD candidates find it very difficult to speak or present their work in English in an international academic communication.  Given these concerns,  the  major aim  of this  paper  is twofold: First,   to explore  oral communication difficulties faced  by postgraduate students  from different department  of  Moulay Ismail University . Second, to examine the impact of the application of certain Neuro- Linguistic Programming ( NLP)  technologies as a promising tool in enhancing their oral communication competences.  To achieve the objective of this study, 120 PhD and Master Students were randomly selected, namely from Faculty of Science of Meknes, to participate in our work.   The obtained results from both the questionnaire and post-test revealed that the use of NLP techniques slightly improved not only students’ pronunciation, self-expression, self –confidence, but also enhanced their attitudes towards English language learning.

Keywords: Oral Communication difficulties, Postgraduate Students, Neuro-Linguistic Programming