Correlation Between Speaking Strategies of EFL Undergraduates and Their Thinking Styles

Abstract

The present study was conducted to analyze the correlation between speaking strategies of EFL undergraduates and their thinking styles. The researcher used chi-square test analysis which 47 sophomore students (34 female and 13 male) in the English department at the state university of Surabaya. In collecting the data, this study used two adopted questionnaires that was developed from Oxford’s LLS speaking 20 items (1990) and Sternberg and Wagner’s (1992) TSI 65 items included among the side of background information on their gender. As concerns on the analysis, this study found that there were no significant correlation between the speaking strategies of EFL undergraduates and their gender (X2= 1.736), the thinking styles of EFL undergraduates and their gender (X2= 1.043), speaking strategies and thinking styles of EFL undergraduates and their gender (X2= 2.839).