analyzed. I would like to use Celce Murcia et al. 1995: 28 as a framework of my study due to the newness and the most specific one.
1.2 Reason for Choosing the Topic
I have two reasons for choosing communication strategies as the topic of my study. First, communication strategies are the most common ways which are used
by second language learners to sustain communication between speaker and interlocutors. If a speaker gets difficulties in saying something, she will use any
effort to make the interlocutors understand what she means or she wants to say. Therefore, I think it is interesting to be analyzed because everyone has different
communication strategies which are dominantly employed. Second, by analyzing the communication strategies used by a teacher in
communicating with hisher students, I think it can be a guidance for the teacher itself and other teachers to use the communication strategies as appropriate as
possible towards the native English. Moreover, the teaching-learning process in classroom will be more effective if the teacher uses communication strategies as
adequate and proper as possible in order to make hisher students understand what heshe actually means.
Here in this study I select an English teacher and her second grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Kendal because nowadays SMA Negeri 1 Kendal is the best
Senior High School in Kendal Regency. The school has accreditation A based on SK No. Ma. 006593 Prov-03
and belongs to SBI, a school which uses English as an additional language during teaching-learning activities i.e. English as the
instructional language, since the academic year of 20082009. Furthermore, according to the Indonesian Ministry of Education statistics of the national final
exam in the academic year of 20092010, the percentage of the school leavers reached 100. The school leavers of science program achieved third position in
Central Java province and got fourth number for the social program. Those reasons will support the validity of the data analysis.
1.3 Statements of the Problems