A STUDY ON THE LEARNING STRATEGIES OF SPEAKING USED BY A HIGH ACHIEVER STUDENT AT ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMAN 6 KEDIRI
Author (Penulis)
MALAM LARASATI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
Author Identity (NPM)
13.1.01.08.0057
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Speaking is one of the language skills. It means that speaking is very important and should be mastered by the student. In the other hand, learning speaking is complex skill so it causes the difficulties for the student. The difficulties in learning speaking it can be solve by using learning strategies. The aim of this research is to find out kind of learning strategies of speaking used by a high achiever student and to know what kind of learning strategies that most frequent used by a high achiever student. This research is qualitative research. The subject of this research only focus with one student, she is eleventh grade student from XI IPS-4 grade. She is female student and her name is Saqila Nugraheni. The researcher gets the data from observation, interview, diaries and checklist. The result from observation and interview it can be conclude that a high achiever student used six types of learning strategies of speaking namely memory strategy, cognitive strategy, compensation strategy, metacognitive strategy, affective strategy and the last social strategy. Then from diaries and checklist, the researcher knows that a high achiever student used affective and social strategies. In diaries Saqila writes her activities in learning speaking and most of her activities directly show about affective and social strategies. In conclusion there is many ways in learning speaking then a high achiever student used six types of learning strategies to solve their difficulties. While for the most frequent strategies a high achiever used affective and social strategies.
Keywords: Speaking, Learning strategies, Learning strategies of speaking