English speaking learning strategies by Hafiz students at SMP Khairunnas Entrepreneur Tuban

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Utami, Siti Putri (2020) English speaking learning strategies by Hafiz students at SMP Khairunnas Entrepreneur Tuban. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

English Speaking is a second language or foreign language that has been viewed as most demanding of the four skills in English. The students in SMP Khairunnas Entrepreneur Tuban just have a limited time to learn the other subject, especially English subject. Consequently, they have to set the suitable learning strategy for them to understand well all of the lessons, especially in English speaking. The objectives of this study is aimed to investigate the student’s English speaking learning strategies and to find out the strength and weaknesses of the strategies that the students used. The subject of this study is the students of 7th grade at SMP Khairunas Tuban. The data that the researcher used was obtaining by using observation checklist and interview guidelines. The result of the first research question showed that the students applies almost all of English speaking learning strategies include metacognitive strategies, affective strategies and social strategies in mastering their speaking skill. The strengths for the students when they apply those strategies are the students get many new vocabularies, they can fluently in speaking English, they know how to pronounce those word, and more confidence in speaking English. Beside the strengths the students also have their weaknesses. They are in their grammar, because they more focus in their speaking and tend to ignore grammar. In fact, the students have to do more practice English speaking, in order to improve their English Achievers.