The Common Strategies of Students in Learning Oracy in Academic Context Subject

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find the common strategies used by students in learning Oracy at English Department in Universitas Jambi. There were six participants from 001, 002 and 003 class. In addition, a qualitative design, case study approach and interviews are used in this study to collect and analyze the data. Then, the researcher found six learning strategies: social, compensation, metacognitive, affective, cognitive, and memory strategies based on Oxford. The result told that most students used some strategies in Oracy class. In several conditions, many students used self-efficacy, and they used gestures to increase their confidence in Oracy class. They liked to repeat the new vocabulary and then remembered several words. Moreover, the effect of this study was the students might get the suitable strategies in Oracy class and for the teachers, it could be the matter of knowledge to teach the compatible methods to make they got the comprehension in Oracy class, and also for the future researchers could also observe about what strategies students did in Oracy class, according to the types of student's competence.