Volume 2 Issue 4 March 2016 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES ISSN 2356-5926 http://www.ijhcs.com/index.php/ijhcs/index Page 884 Investigating the Impact of Autonomous Learning on Developing the Learners’ Oral Skills Asma Ounis Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sfax University of Sfax, Tunisia ounisetasma@yahoo.fr Abstract Learner autonomy has become an issue of central interest the field of SLA for various researchers and scholars. The present research seeks to investigate the learners’ conceptions of autonomous learning, and how the latter has an impact on developing various aspects of the learners’ verbal performance. Through the use of questionnaire surveys as an instrument of data collection, the findings reveal that the 3 rd year EFL students at ISLG have shown considerable awareness and highly positive conceptions towards autonomous learning which in its turn has proven very effective in developing the learners’ oral skills. Keywords: Autonomy, Autonomous learning, oral performance, EFL learner.