Since speaking is one of the main challenges for a basic student, and leads to student’s
frustration since the beginning of the degree; it was proposed to carry out a study based
specifically on the speaking skill strategies at basic level in order to support and enhance
student’s oral participation. MacIntyre and Gardner (cited in Murrieta and Hernández 2012,
p.15) found out that using learning strategies reduces the level of anxiety which is very
common reaction at these early stages.This would be the beginning for searching new
strategies that could be of great help for them in this new learning stage which is “learning
English as a foreign language”.