I rearly use AVAudioPlayer. So I don't know how to choose speaker. But if you use CocosDenshoin & SimpleAudioEngine, then the following code may be useful for you.
[[SimpleAudioEngine sharedEngine] playEffect:pad3TuneFile pitch:1.0f pan: 1.0 gain:pad3Volume];
Here, the value of pan is in between -1.0 to 1.0. Depending on the value the volume of speaker is changed. For example, if you choose the value 0.0, then both speaker will play with same volume and if you choose the value 1.0, the left speaker will play with full sound and the right speaker will be muted.