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THE STUDENTS? LEARNING STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE THEIR SPEAKING SKILL USING GRAMMAR IN LOW, MEDIUM, AND HIGH LEVEL AT THE FOURTH SEMESTER OF UNIROW TUBAN
ABSTRACT
Andiroh, Ervin 2012 : The Students? Learning Strategies To Improve Their Speaking Skill Using Grammar In Low, Medium and High Level At The Fourth Semester Of Unirow Tuban
Advisors :1. Drs. Mansur, M.pd
2. Risa Triassanti, M.pd
Key word :Learning Strategy, Speaking Skill Using Grammar
This study is intended to describe 1) the language learning strategies employed by low, medium, and high proficient students in mastering speaking skill, and to find 2) the reasons why the students employ those strategies.
This study uses qualitative analysis. It takes 21 students of class 2014 A at English Department of UNIROW Tuban as subjects of the study and they were categorized into three kinds of participants namely: Low achiever, medium achiever and high achiever students. In this case, two instruments are used. It covers questionnaire for all the subjects for two students from each level of proficiency and interview. The scale of the questionnaire items taken from Oxford (1990: 294) semi structured and the Questionnaire are analyzed using Likert scale from 1 to5, and the interviews were descriptively
The result indicated that all of the students from all levels of proficiency used Affective strategies the highest. The high proficient used all types of LLS, from which affective strategy was used the most, and the other LLS were also highly used as the following order: metacognitive strategy, social strategy, cognitive strategy, compensation strategy and memory strategy. Meanwhile, the medium proficient students also used LLS with affective strategy as the highest level. The other strategies were also applied with medium level: the other LLS are ordered as follows: Social strategy, cognitive strategy, compensation strategy, metacognitive strategy and memory strategy. The last, the low proficient students also used LLS with Affective strategy as the highest level. The other strategies were applied with the following order: social strategy, cognitive strategy, metacognitive strategy, compensation strategy and memory strategy.
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