THE EFFECT OF TEACHING ORAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES ON INDONESIAN EFL LEARNERS SPEAKING SKILL

• Main Author: Yuniarti
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Kuningan 2017-07-01
• Series: Indonesian EFL Journal
• Subjects: EFL teaching; oral communication strategies; speaking skill
• Online Access: https://journal.uniku.ac.id/index.php/IEFLJ/article/view/666/523

This study reports on applying the teaching of oral communication strategies (OCSs) in the speaking class to improve students speaking skill. It was designed in a quasi-experimental research. 53 undergraduate EFL students in the English Department of a private university in Kuningan were purposively chosen as the participant of the course. They were grouped into control and experimental class. The course material of OCSs was adapted from a study conducted by Nakatani (2005). The effects of teaching OCSs were assessed by two types of data collection: the participants pre-test and posttest speaking scores, and the transcription from the tests. The first result showed that the most frequently used OCSs in the speaking class were filled pauses, interlanguage-based, false starts, providing active response, first-language-based, and approximation strategy. Then, second, the t result indicated that tobs was greater than tcrit. Therefore, it can be concluded that the teaching of OCSs in the EFL speaking class had a significant effect in developing students speaking skill. It indicates that such training activities are relatively applicable to use in the language classroom.