Strategies For Developing Speaking Skill Used By Students Of English Education Department: A Case Study

This study investigates strategies for developing speaking skill used by students of English Education Department of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. The purpose of this study is to describe the strategies in developing speaking skill. Type of the research conducted by the writer is case study. In this research, the object of the research is strategies for developing speaking skills which are used by 3 students of third semester of English Education Department of UMS. The data of this research are elicited by field note and interview. The data include the students’ attitude in learning English speaking skill, their behaviors toward English speaking skill, and their habits of using the strategies in learning English especially to master speaking skill. The result of this research shows that the students applied almost all of the strategies proposed by O’Malley et al including meta-cognitive strategies, cognitive strategies, and socio-affective strategies in mastering their speaking skill. In meta-cognitive strategies, the students use seven to eight strategies, namely: advance organizer, selective attention, self management, functional planning, self monitoring, and self evaluation. In cognitive strategies, the students used twelve to fourteen strategies, namely: repetition, resourcing, grouping, note taking, deduction, recombination, imagery, auditory representation, key word, contextualization, elaboration, and inferencing. And in socio-affective strategies, the students used two strategies, namely: cooperation and question for clarificatio