The Role of Students’ Language Learning Strategies in Speaking

Annisa Octa Elvira, Bambang Setiyadi, Muhammad Sukirlan

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Abstract: The purposes of this study are (i) to find out the significant difference of speaking among high and low frequency users in learnng strategies, (ii) to investigate the most frequent strategy used by high performer in speaking. This study was carried out at Muhammadiyah 2 Senior High School involving 29 students selected as sample. The data were collected by means of English speaking test and questionnaire test of speaking. The data were analyzed and interpreted by using ANOVA supported by SPSS v.16. The result reveals that there are (i) the difference of speaking among high and low frequency users in learning strategies was significant (p < .05; p= .000) where Fvalue was higher that Ftable (74.32 > 2.76), (ii) most of high performer in speaking used cognitive strategies in speaking. Based on the result it can be concluded that there was a significant difference in speaking among high and low frequency users in learning strategies and it also showed that most of high performer in speaking used cognitive strategies in speaking. It means that the teachers should be aware of students’ learning strategy in speaking because the more the students use learning strategy in speaking the better their ability will be.

 

Keyword: cognitive strategies, language learning strategy, metacognitive strategies, social strategies, speaking.


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