AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN EFL SPEAKING CLASSROOM (A DESCRIPTIVE QUALITATIVE STUDY AT SMAN MODAL BANGSA)

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AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN EFL SPEAKING CLASSROOM (A
DESCRIPTIVE QUALITATIVE STUDY AT SMAN MODAL BANGSA)

ABSTRACT
Abstract
Name : Syarifah Balqis
Student No. : 1106102020043
Study Program : English Education
Title : An Analysis of Students’ Communication Strategies in EFL Speaking Classroom
Key Words : Speaking, Communication Strategies, EFL Classroom

Communication strategies (CSs) can be a good solution for students to handle communication problems. This qualitative study was
set to analyze the used of CSs of first grade students at SMAN Modal Bangsa, proposed by Tarone (1978). Observation sheet was
used to collect the data. The result of the study reveals that out the 83 utterances of six types of CSs are applied in this study; 27
utterances are literal translation, 25 utterances are approximation, 16 utterances are appeal for assistance, 12 utterances are language
switch, 2 utterances are massage abandonment, and 1 utterance are topic avoidance. Moreover, literal translation, approximation,
and language switch became the most frequent strategy used by low achiever students. Meanwhile, high achiever students prefer to
use approximation, literal translation, and appeal for assistance strategies. It can be concluded that rising awareness of CSs may
help students’ performance in speaking skill. Therefore, the researcher recommended that teaching the students to use CSs help

them in enhancing the students’ speaking ability.