The aim of this study is to examine the perceptions of swedish students of Spanish as a foreign language and their teachers about practicing oral communication in the classroom and to know which are the communication strategies that the students prefer to use in occations when they don ́t know a specific word in Spanish. The present study is based on an empirical study consisting of questionnaries carried out with 102 students at highschool and secondary school and their corresponding teachers, wich are five. In the theoretical background of the essay the communication skills and the different factors that can affect the use of them are explained such as the different communication strategies. The statistical analyses do verify the inicial hypothesis that the opinion of the students and the teachers is different in order according to whether they learn how to use different communication strategies in the classroom or not, but both groups do have the same opinion about the use of strategies.