Towards A Better Use Of Speaking Strategies To Improve The Speaking Skill

The speaking skill is one of the most important skills to acquire when one learns a foreign language. However, many foreign language learners find that skill very difficult because it requires a great deal of production on their part. Therefore, many studies in the field of foreign language acquisition research have investigated the role of the language learning strategies and have revealed that they greatly contribute to facilitating and improving the foreign language learning. Many of these researchers have focused on those strategies that are effective in helping learners to become self-reliant and to achieve communicative competence in speaking the target language. In this respect, the present paper aims at identifying the required strategies for the development of competencies in English as a foreign language and at analysing whether or not the communicative activities carried out by 2AS Algerian pupils (represented by a sample of 50 pupils from a secondary school in Annaba) encourage the learners to make use of speaking strategies which would in turn help them to develop their communicative competence.