Author (Penulis)

FANDHI AHMAD
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0075

Abstract

FANDHI AHMAD, Learning Strategies In Speaking Skill Applied By Students of Eleventh Grade At SMK Negeri 1 Ngasem Kediri Academic Year 2014-2015. Speaking is important to be mastered by people in the world. By having English speaking ability, people can communicate their mind orally with other people in the international relationship easily. Communication orally is important because can understand the gesture, mime, and the expression of the speaker and the listener in the communication. But students have some difficulties in the process learning speaking. They have difficulty when the learner has no idea about what to say, they may lose confidence, feel not comfortable, feel afraid of making mistakes, etc. So, the students should have the solving for these problems.One of the important factor that influence students speaking ability is learning strategies, so the students should have the appropriate learning strategies which helped them to learn more easily. Learning strategies are steps taken by students to enhance their own learning. In this case, learning strategies are applied by each student is different, so the writer give many kinds of learning strategies that can applied by students. Therefore, in this study the writer wanted to find out whether there is any significant use learning strategies in speaking learning process. This objective of this research is to describe learning strategies in speaking are applied by the students of eleventh grade at SMK Negeri 1 Ngasem Kediri in academic year 2014-2015. Therefore, in this research the writer wanted to find out whether what learning strategies in speaking are often used by the students of eleventh grade at SMK Negeri 1 Ngasem Kediri in academic year 2014-2015. This research is qualitative descriptive research about learning strategies, there are two major classes: direct and indirect strategies which used in speaking skill. The subject research is one class at eleventh grade which consist of 25 students. The instrument used to get data is questionnaire which adapted from the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) Version 7.0 Version (ESL/EFL) designed by Oxford (1990). In addition, the findings of the research indicated that students applied the learning strategies in speaking learning process. The most strategy that was often used by the students to learn speaking subject was metacognitive strategy such as pay attention when someone is speaking English (paying attention), it showed by questionnaire that 72% the students on score 4 which means very good. Other, the second most strategy that was often used by students to learn speaking subject was memory strategy such as review English lesson often (reviewing well), it showed that 60% the student on score 3 which means good. The writer concludes that learning strategies are important for language learning to improve their speaking ability. Learning strategies are help the students to improve their ability, to solve their problem in language learning and language use, contribute to the development of the communicative competence, tools for active, and self-directed movement. Students have different problems and ability in language learning process, so student may employ certain strategies that are relatively different from those of the others.

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PUBLISHED

2016-01-20

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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