A Profile of Strategies of Learning Speaking Skills by Indonesian Learners of English

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10.2991/978-2-38476-040-4_12How to use a DOI?

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Strategies of learning speaking; Speaking skills; Learners of English

Abstract

This study aimed to profile the strategies Indonesian English learners use in developing their speaking skills. The profile covered four aspects, including the intensity of the use of the method in learning to speak, how one item inter-correlates with each other, how individual factors correlate to the learning speaking strategy attainment, and whether the use of learning strategies correlates significantly with the students’ speaking skill. In this case, 560 students of an English education study program from five universities in East Java, Indonesia, were invited to be the study subjects. They were asked to fill out a 55-item questionnaire of strategies inventory for developing speaking skills distributed through a google form. The collected data were analyzed using factor analysis, descriptive statistics, and correlation analysis. From the data analysis, the following profile of the strategies was obtained. First, six groups of strategies were discerned, explaining 44% of the variances of strategies to develop speaking skills. They were named interactional maintenance strategies, metacognitive-evaluative strategies, compensation strategies, fluency-oriented strategies, culture-related social strategies, and time-gaining strategies. Also, it was found that the overall use of the strategies was moderate, with compensation strategies primarily used and culture-related social strategies used the least. Moreover, the use of these strategies was found to be significantly intercorrelated, suggesting that an increase in one strategy will lead to a similar rise in the other strategies. Finally, using strategies for learning to speak correlates significantly with the students’ speaking performance.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alfan Zuhairi
AU  - Junaidi Mistar
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/04/24
TI  - A Profile of Strategies of Learning Speaking Skills by Indonesian Learners of English
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Humanities, and Management (ICEHUM 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 116
EP  - 124
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-040-4_12
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-040-4_12
ID  - Zuhairi2023
ER  -