Teachers’ Strategies
in Teaching Speaking: A Study at LPK Padma
Widyanata
Adi Nugroho
Abstract
This study was aimed to investigate and describe the teachers’ strategies in teaching speaking to students at LPK Padma Widyanata Easy English Education Salatiga (Easy English). Easy English was chosen because I found that speaking is mostly emphasized, during four months of teaching in Easy English. Meanwhile, when I was doing my teaching practicum in one of senior high schools in Salatiga, speaking and listening were skills in English that were largely ignored, but writing and reading are getting focus. In addition, there are many strategies in teaching speaking that could be applied in the classroom. The participants of this research were three English teachers. They were2 junior teachers that one teacher teaches for 6.5 years, and another one teaches for 2 years. The last one was a senior teacher that had been teaching for 15 years. In collecting the data, Classroom observation was conducted to identify the strategies of teaching speaking. The results revealed that encouraging students to speak, giving motivation and making aware of scripts were the strategies used by the teachers. Encouraging students to speak was the most frequently used strategy. Assuring misunderstanding could occur and building a stock of minimal responses were the strategies never used by the teachers.
