| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study is to identify the oral communication strategies used by
senior high school students when communicating in English. The respondents were
135 students studying listening and speaking in senior high school. This study used
a questionnaire Oral Communication Strategies Inventory, adopted from Nakatani
(2006). The questionnaire consisted of eight strategies and thirty-two statements.
The students filled out a questionnaire using a Likert scale of 1 to 5 to respond to
the statement. The data were analyzed using SPSS 26 and Microsoft Excel. The
findings from this study are most of the students used strategies such as speaking
skills, named accuracy-oriented strategies. Meanwhile, the least used strategy is
attempting to think in English. The highest strategies used by students are accuracyoriented
strategies
(M=
3.85),
social
affective
strategies
(M=
3.78),
negotiation
for
meaning
while speaking strategies (M= 3.70), fluency-oriented strategies (M=
3.60), message abandonment strategies (M= 3.56), message reduction and
alteration strategies (M= 3.37), nonverbal strategies while speaking (M= 3.36), and
the lowest strategy is an attempt to think in English strategies (M= 3.19). The
findings showed that most of the students pay great attention to their pronunciation
and grammatical accuracy when they make mistakes in communicating so that the
conversation runs smoothly, although students disagree with the attempt to think in
English when communicating in English. | en_US |
