This project emerges from the lack of research developed in the field of the teaching and
assessment of the speaking skill in the region of Pereira – Risaralda, with the purpose to contribute to
teachers and the public institutions with a research that shows the results related to the oral production
as a base for future improvement. The qualitative research project was developed in a public high
school located in the city of Pereira - Colombia, with the contribution of six participants (two English
teachers and four students from 10th grade) and three researchers. This study was aimed to identify how
the teaching and assessment of the speaking skill was developed in a public high school from Pereira,
taken as a base the perspectives that teachers and learners have towards the instruction of the oral
production and the principal aspects that emerged from the research related to the exposure that
learners had to the English language.