COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES USE BY ENGLISH TEACHER AND STUDENTS TO COPE WITH THE PROBLEMS OF ENGLISH SPEAKING CLASSROOM ACTIVITY AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE MA TARBIYATUL MUSLIMIN DASAN MA’ALAN EAST LOMBOK

Abstract

This study investigated the kinds of communication strategies used by English teacher and Students to cope with the problems of English speaking classroom activity and the factors which influenced the user use of communication strategies. Two instruments were used in this study (questionnaires and interview), the questionnaire consist of two section for the students, the first questionnaires was adopted from Nakatanies’ theory about 8 categories of strategies for coping with speaking problems and the second section was about the students factors which influenced the use of communication strategies. It was found that from all over of the eight strategies that the students use to cope with the speaking problem of English class room activities. The students tend to use Attempts to Think in English Strategies with the highest percentage (100%) and the lowest percentage was Accuracy Oriented Strategies (40%).  In the students’ factor which influenced the use of communication strategies were the students’ self –perception of speaking capability (64 %), Frequency of speaking English inside or outside the classroom (52 %), Vocabulary mastery (60%) and motivation (62%). Those percentages indicated in the level of lower.

            The result of interview, the strategy that the English teacher used to cope with the speaking problem was similar to social affective strategies, message reduction and alteration strategies, and negotiation for meaning while speaking strategies. While the factors which influenced the English teachers used of communication strategies were the teacher’s lack of experience in teaching learning process and his lack of conversing in English inside or outside of classroom. The teacher also used particular communication strategies in order to help the students to understand easily about the teachers’ expression, to develop students’ motivation to study English, and to check the students’ understanding about his explanation as well

Keywords: Communication Strategies, Communicative Competence, Speaking Classroom      Activity