The Teacher’s Strategies In Teaching Speaking At The Eleventh Grade Of State Senior High School 4 Jambi

Speaking has the important role in our life. By having good speaking skill, the students will be able to communicate each other and develop them to be wise speakers both in the class and daily life. There are many kinds of strategies that can be applied by teacher in teaching speaking. But the teacher should select the strategy that appropriate with the students need and material. The strategy for teaching greatly affects the students’ understanding in a process of learning. The main purposes of this research are: (1) to describe the strategy used in teaching speaking. The type of this research was qualitative. In this research, the teacher and the students of SMAN 4 Jambi were as subject of the research and the sources of the data. The techniques of data collection used were observation, interview, and documentation. The findings showed that: English teachers in SMAN 4 Jambi use various strategies to improve student speaking abilities, because this is the main goal in learning English. Some of the main strategies most often used by English teachers in SMAN 4 Jambi to improve students' speaking skills are role play, picture strip story, group discussion, and direct strategy. Between one teacher and another teacher has different application in using various strategies because each teacher teaches different class, different in class level, students’ ability, and class condition