Teaching English and Language Learning English Journal (TELLE) Vol 01; No:01; Februari 2021 43 ACTIVE INTERACTION AS LECTURERS’ STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE SPEAKING CLASSROOM Ririn Putri Ananda, M.Pd,Patri Dinkuswari Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu Email: rananda@umb.ac.id Patridinkuswari0310@gmail.com Abstract The goal of this study is to understand the strategies of lecturers and the dominant strategies of lecturers used by lecturers. This research discussed about the promotion of active participation in speaking classrooms by lecturers. This research employed qualitative design for analysis.The instrument were a questionnaire focused on (Jia,2013) theory and an interview. The results demonstrated that the lecturers completely used all strategies namely, improving questioning strategies, attending to learners' linguistic level, implementing cooperative learning, building positive teacher-learner rapports, reducing classroom anxiety. From those strategies, The highest percentage of strategies implementation leads to attending to learners' linguistic level. The result implies that it is necessary to introduce the use of strategies to encourage active classroom to develop the comprehension of the students and to establish an efficient way to teach speaking. Keywords: Strategies, Teaching Srategy, Speaking. A. INTRODUCTION Speaking is as one of four basic skills, which is important to be understand because the main purposes of learning a language is to be able to communicate orally. This purpose will only be complete fulfilled if the students are train with the activity, which is able to trigger them to speak. In carrying out speaking skills, students face some difficulties; one of them is about language itself. This probably happens because of most of students find it difficult to speak even though they have a lot of vocabularies and have written them well. This kind of problems make them afraid to make mistakes. Meanwhile, Richards (1990) clearly states that drilling in terms of fluency, accuracy and comprehensibility are important thing to in speaking skill. in speaking class, thr target language in varying activities shoul be exposed by the students. Meanwhile, speaking is a skill, which develop the students’ ability to produce the language and share ideas with other people. Therefore, the lecturer needs to find out the appropriate teaching and learning process in the classroom. In teaching process, a lecturer create a plan in order to form a reciprocal relationship between lecturer and students. So not only lecturer interact, but also students participate in the interaction process. Allwright and Bailey (1991:25) stated