Institusion
Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji
Author
Sartika, Istiqomah
Muhammad, Candra
Dewi, Murni
Subject
411.52 Spelling/Ejaan dan Ucapan
Datestamp
2021-07-28 06:27:48
Abstract :
Speaking considered to be a not easy skill to deal with. As everything need
strategies in achieving something, also does speaking. It needs an appropriate
strategy in learning process. The objective of this research is to determine
speaking strategies used by EFL students at fourth semester of English education
study program who are taking academic speaking class at Universitas Maritim
Raja Ali Haji Tanjungpinang. This research is descriptive qualitative research
which means the researcher presents the result of the data in a description of
words in order to show students? speaking learning strategies. The SILL
questionnaire designed by Rebecca Oxford (1990) version 7.0 was adopted to
collect the data for this research. The data were processed and analyzed through
Microsoft excel and SPSS 16. Of the sixty-five fourth semester students, only
fifty-four of them who submitted the answer sheet on time. The result of this
research revealed that the fourth semester students of english education study
program are usually used social and metacognitive strategies in their speaking
learning as it proved by the high average score. For the social strategies, the
average is 3.59 and metacognitive strategies is 3.52. Based on the SILL Profile of
Result, those scores were categorized as high level means they usually used it in
their learning. Another four strategies were categorized as medium level means
they sometimes used the strategies in their speaking learning, are cognitive
strategies (3.43), compensation strategies (3.42), memory strategies (3.26) and
affective strategies (3.19