Appropriation of the spoken word in foreign language

Having conceptualised language as a formal system with respect to verbal interaction, this study focuses on illustrating how the subject develops in language through the spoken word. Human beings have no access to themselves but through the symbolic which grants him an audience in the form of language. In as much as the mediation of the symbolic institution provides indications that help the subject recognise not only the series of operations to perform but also the attitudes favourable to achievement, contact and interaction with language results in a subject divided by his own speech. As concerns oral expression, the study takes it as being not only as a means of communication but also an intermediary to learning. This study has gone to lengths to explain the status accorded to oral production and practise in the educational context specific to Kenya