Practice: Evaluation: Procedure of Developed Metacognitive Training in Speaking Skill
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Therefore the researcher assumes that students who applied metacognitive strategies more frequently have improved aspects of speaking. The improvement
of speaking performance promotes better performance in speaking. Several previous researches focused on the strategy use and the other focused on the
language skill. These raised the willingness of the researcher to conduct similar metacognitive strategy training to see the implementation in form of process and
design of the training itself related to improvement of speaking aspects. This training focused on the process of employing metacognitive awareness and put it
into procedural knowledge in promoting speaking aspects. Student’s awareness in using metacognitive strategies results in student’s active engagement in speaking.
Metacognitive strategy training that consists of preparation, presentation, practice, evaluation, and expansion is considered to be effective in promoting
aspects of students’ speaking performance. It is assumed that this training increases metacognitive strategy use in speaking. Although speaking is important
skill for making good communication, speaking is included in difficult skill to be mastered by the students. There are many students who are still frightened in
speaking. By seeing this fact, English teacher trains the students to be able to employ metacognitive strategies to improve their speaking skill. By the end of the
training, students are expected to regulate their metacognitive strategy use in speaking. The process they experience also develops their speaking performance
to be better.
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The following picture describes thinking frame about how metacognitive strategies can promote students speaking skill.