The population consisted of all NCE part two students offering English as a single major subject in colleges of education in the South-west, Nigeria. The study adopted the quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test and control group (two experimental groups and one control group) research design. The research also examined the moderating influence of gender on the performance in and their attitude to spoken English when taught using analog and digital interactive teaching strategies. The study investigated the effects of analog and digital interactive teaching strategies on students’ learning outcomes in spoken English in Colleges of Education in the South-west, Nigeria. Moreover, this study attempts to shed light on the importance of teachers' role in establishing friendly and productive environment as an attempt to encourage students to use the language. It also attempts to investigate how much the language learners are aware of natural strategies and how often they experience them in their classrooms in Iraq. The present study aims at exploring the role of teachers in developing students' speaking skill. Thus, the primary job of a language teacher is to encourage learners to use English not only in the classroom but also in their daily interaction with their classmates, with teachers or any other English speaking people, if possible. to avoid shyness and unwillingness to speak English. Therefore, it is necessary for language teachers to implement some natural strategies such as: role plays, group work, projects, etc. However, the ability of speaking is a complex process in its nature many of the learners feel anxious to speak in the classroom or outside it due to different social or psychological reasons, so they keep silent. Since many learners' goal in language learning is to be able to communicate fluently in formal and informal interaction, classroom activities should be designed to promote oral fluency. As it has been discovered by many researchers, foreign language learning best occurs through interaction, teachers should provide learners with the opportunities to communicate in English at the lesson. Moreover, speaking is not a part of the examination in most language courses. Most students do not even have the opportunity to speak in the classroom or outside it. Notwithstanding, this skill is one of the most neglected skills in language instruction. Learners often measure their success in language learning by the extent to which they can use their spoken English. Speaking skill is considered to be the most important skill by language learners.
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