STUDENTS' STRATEGIES IN LEARNING SPEAKING AT MTs AL-HIDAYATUL ISLAMIYAH

This research is about students' strategies in learning the ability to speak English. This research was conducted at MTs Al-hidayatul Islamiyah Tanjung Jabung Timur Majelis Hidayah. The purpose of this study is to find out what strategies they use in learning English, especially speaking. The design of this research is to use qualitative descriptive methods. The subject of this study was a student in the eighth grade at MTs Al-Hidayatul Islamiyah Tanjung Jabung Timur Majelis Hidayah. The research data was collected using observations, interviews, and documentation. From the results found that many students in the class use memorization strategies, although many use memorization strategies there are also students who use other strategies such as social strategies, cognitive strategies, and affective strategies. Taking from 7 students who had higher average grades as subjects, 3 students chose to use memorization strategies by having 43% more cendrung in memorization. Then the affective strategy is more cendrung selected students in listening to music and singing / memorizing song lyrics, so that it has a subject of 2 students with 29%. Furthermore, cognitive strategies are more popular in mentioning words through scrabble games or playing composing words so that they have a subject of 1 student with 14%. and the end of social strategy favored in communicating for example talking to other students in the form of dialogue by having 14%