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This study aims to find out the kinds of the strategies used by English teachers in teaching speaking at Mts Nurul Falah Air Mesu Timur. From these statements, the researcher analyzed the strategies used by English teacher in teaching speaking at Mts Nurul Falah. The objectives of this research were: to elaborate the strategies used by English teacher in teaching speaking at MTs Nurul Falah Air Mesu Timur and to elaborate the implementation in teaching speaking at MTs Nurul Falah Air Mesu Timur. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method and data collection was based on observation and interview. The collected data were analyzed by Miles and Huberman theory in Sugiyono, they are: data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion. The observation was used to observe the process of how the strategies used by English teacher in teaching speaking in class, the interview was used to support the results of the observation checklist. The samples of this study were two English teachers. Then, to point out the trustworthiness of the data, this research used triangulation technique method. The findings of this research showed that the teachers applied many strategies to teaching speaking in the classroom, such as role play, drilling, discussion, picture describing, storytelling, brainstorming, and creative tasks. The teachers also varied the strategies in every meeting. Furthermore, their reason for applying the strategies was because the strategies would make the students active in the class and could motivate them to teacher speaking.