Teaching strategies to promote oral production in FLE

Getting learners to speak spontaneously and naturally has always posed difficulties for teachers who try to apply a variety of teaching strategies so that learners can develop their ability to express themselves in a foreign language. Given the importance of this problem we decided to carry out a study aimed at identifying and analyzing the strategies used by A1-level teachers at the Alliance Française de Xalapa to encourage oral production in their learners. To accomplish this task we used two research instruments: semi-directive interviews and lesson observation. The aim of our work is therefore to present the results of a qualitative analysis based on the use of teaching strategies resulting in a repertoire of the teaching strategies most frequently used by the teachers observed.