Résumé:
A great attention started to be drawn on english students silence in EFL host county environment that has been the center of interest in science of education research. However, this phenomenon demonstrates an important challenge for both educators and learners that can be observed in english students lower or almost disappeared achievement at their verbal production and communication. This inquiry seeks and aims at provide insight into the reason behind english students passive performance and its impact on their both behavioral and cognitive in-class engagement at English department of khemis University. The main problematic of such work is that the overseas students avoid communication instead, they tend to keep quiet. This implies that this community could have some communicative language issues. Therefore, the main language problems are explored and identified during the oral production and phonetic sessions and to generate the doubt on the impact that occur for both dimensions of engagement. the research hold both quantitative and qualitative methods as it address questionnaire to a sample of 22 english students of the undergraduate levels in addition to checklist observation. The distinct instruments were used to know different participants perspective in short time from the questionnaire due to circumstances and o check and monitor during the observation. The acquired finding confirmed that the english students reticence was strongly relevant to communicative language issues, moreover, this exceed to impact their behavioral in negative way whereas the cognitive engagement in positive way in different extent from L1 to L2 to L3 students.
