Abstract
Improving oral communication skills in English as
 a Foreign Language (EFL) context is regarded as a challenging issue since
 students have limited opportunities to practice the target language outside the
 classroom. The objective is to make students gain the maximum benefit from the
 activities in the classroom within the limited time periods. Therefore,
 different techniques, activities, tasks, projects, and etc. have been utilized
 in order to accomplish this objective in oral communication skills course
 offered in English Language Teacher Education (ELT) Programs in Turkey. Guiding
 students to make oral presentations about variety of topics can be one of the
 ways of fostering their oral proficiency levels in English. This study
 investigates into ELT Freshman students’ perceptions of one-semester
 performances based on self-created presentations. It employs semi-structured
 interview which is one of the data collection tools in qualitative studies. The
 results of the study indicate that student-created oral presentations can
 contribute to students’ fluency, self-confidence, cooperation, interaction, and
 foreign language learning motivation in the eyes of freshman students. 
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