Teachers’ strategies in teaching speaking at Language Development Center of IAIN Padangsidimpuan

This research discussed the strategies used by the teachers in teaching speaking. Speaking has important roles in people’s 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. There were two formulations of the problems in this research. The first was what are the strategies used by the teachers in teaching speaking? The second was why do the teachers used strategies in teaching speaking? The objectives of this research were to find out the types of strategies are used by teachers and to find out reasons teachers why the teachers used strategies in teaching speaking. This research used mixed method. It means this research began with quantitative research and continued by qualitative research. In this research, the teachers at Language Development Center of IAIN Padangsidimpuan were as subject of the research and the sources of the data. In collecting data, questionnaire and observation aims to find the data about the kinds of strategies in teaching speaking, while interview aims to find data about the reasons why they implemented the strategies in teaching speaking. The result of the research were; Teachers at language development center use various strategies in teaching speaking skills. Some of the strategies used by English teachers at Language Development Center in teaching speaking skills are Memory strategy, Cognitive strategy, Compensation strategy, Metacognitive strategy, Affective strategy and Social strategy. Social strategy has highest score was (4.2) and Metacognitive Strategy has the lowest score was (3.5). The teachers used those strategies because it is easy to use by the teachers, suitable with for speaking material and interesting for students