Author (Penulis)

Siti Luluk H.
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0088

Abstract

Speaking is one of important skills that must be learnt in order to communicate with other people orally. To be successful in learning speaking, the students need to apply learning strategies in their learning process to help them in understanding information and solving problems. This research is aimed to describe the learning strategies used in speaking, to find out the frequent learning strategies that mostly used in speaking, and to describe the reasons of choosing those frequent learning strategies used by high, medium and low achievers in speaking at fourth grade students of English Department at University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri in the academic year 2015/2016. This research used qualitative approach using methods of case study. The instruments used to collect the data were questionnaire, documentation and interview. The result of this research found that the high, medium and low achievers used six types of strategies in different frequency. The high achiever used metacognitive more than the other strategies because she payed more attention in how the way she learnt about speaking. Then, medium achiever used both cognitive and metacognitive because she focused not only in organizing, planning and evaluating her learning process but she also tried to understand and produce the English components such as vocabulary. Meanwhile, low achiever used cognitive and compensation because she focused more in understanding, producing and her missing knowledge especially in vocabulary aspect. Based on those results, the researcher suggests to the high, medium and low achievers to apply all of the learning strategies maximally to handle their difficulties while learning speaking.

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-08

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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