Study of “The impact of strategies-based instruction on speaking a foreign language” by Andrew D. Cohen, Susan J.Weaver, and Tao-Yuan Li. The study compared the improvement on certain speaking tasks related to the learner’s performance to the strategy training they had received. Consisted of 55 students, During the first week of class, all subjects completed the 80-item Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) (Oxford 1990). In response to the first research question, regarding the effects of strategies based instruction on speaking proficiency, the results of analysis of covariance showed that the experimental group outperformed the comparison group on the third of the three speaking tasks, the city description.