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Teachers’ Strategies in Teaching Speaking: A Study at LPK Padma
Widyanata
Adi Nugroho
Abstract
This study was aimed to investigate and describe the teachers’ strategies in
teaching speaking to students at LPK Padma Widyanata Easy English Education
Salatiga (Easy English). Easy English was chosen because I found that speaking is
mostly emphasized, during four months of teaching in Easy English. Meanwhile,
when I was doing my teaching practicum in one of senior high schools in Salatiga,
speaking and listening were skills in English that were largely ignored, but writing
and reading are getting focus. In addition, there are many strategies in teaching
speaking that could be applied in the classroom. The participants of this research
were three English teachers. They were2 junior teachers that one teacher teaches for
6.5 years, and another one teaches for 2 years. The last one was a senior teacher
that had been teaching for 15 years. In collecting the data, Classroom observation
was conducted to identify the strategies of teaching speaking. The results revealed
that encouraging students to speak, giving motivation and making aware of scripts
were the strategies used by the teachers. Encouraging students to speak was the
most frequently used strategy. Assuring misunderstanding could occur and building
a stock of minimal responses were the strategies never used by the teachers.
Keywords: strategies, teaching speaking.