A Survey Of Oral Communication Strategies For Efl Learner

Abstract

This research is concerned in speaking and listening skill of EFL learners in Indonesia. This study aims to identify the strategies used by EFL learner. The participants were 201students enrolling in English Department at private university. The data was collected by using questionnaire “Oral communication strategies inventory by Nakatani (2006). The data were analyzed by using SPSS and Microsoft Excel. The findings describe two the most effective strategies of speaking skill and listening skill. This section is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on Indonesian students’ overall use of oral communication strategies. The second part focuses on Indonesian students’ oral communication strategy use in each of speaking strategy categories. The third part presents Indonesian students’ oral communication strategy use in each of the listening strategy.The highest factor for speaking skill is negotiation of meaning (M=4.30), following by nonverbal strategy (M=4.25), social affecting (M=4.12), fluency-oriented (M=4.12), massage abandonment (M=4.10), Attempt to think in English (M=3.96). In case of listening, getting the gist get the highest score with mean (M=4.25 negotiation of meaning while listening (M=4.21), word oriented (M=4.20), fluency-maintaining (M=4.15), nonverbal strategy (M=4.11), less active (M=3.96), scanning strategy (M=3.85)