This thesis is entitled “The Exploration of the Use of Teaching Strategies in Managing a Large Class (A Case Study at a Speaking Class, FTK UIN Ar-Raniry). The purpose of this study is to find out the strategies used by lecturer in managing a large speaking class. In attaining data, the researcher used two techniques, observation and interview. The observation was conducted to obtain the strategies that were used by lecturer in a large speaking class, while the interview was used to gain the opinion of students and lecturer about the teaching strategies in a large class. The participants of this study are a unit 6 of students in academic year 2016/2017 of English Department of UIN Ar-Raniry. Based on the data attained from the techniques used the writer concluded that teaching strategies used by the lecturer in managing a large speaking class were direct method, cooperative learning, individual task, reporting method and group discussion. In addition, the data shows that the suitable teaching strategies in managing a large class are playing game, describing thing and place, group discussion and fill in the blank.
Key words: Teaching Strategy, Large Class.