Two objectives will guide this research. First, to identify the practices and highlight the difficulties in oral expression that any student may encounter at the beginning and even during his or her learning of French in a university context. For a student, expressing himself or herself orally and taking risks with a language that he or she has not mastered is not so easy to achieve. The difficulties are there, and the challenge is to better understand what actually happens during the oral expression of a beginning student. It is in this perspective that we are interested in oral expression in particular, given the impact it can have on the student's current and future life. Developing this skill means regaining self-confidence and delivering the word with ease. Secondly, to highlight the interest of teaching oral expression as a separate discipline, during which students will have every opportunity to take language initiatives to free themselves from their constraints, in order to express themselves and to listen to themselves, in order to develop their reflective and autonomous expressive skills.