AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING AT SMAN 5 KOTA BENGKULU

The objectives of the research were to find out the strategies used by teachers in
teaching speaking at SMAN 5 Kota Bengkulu and to describe how the teachers
implement the strategies in the teaching process. This research was descriptive
qualitative. The subjects were two English teachers who taught at tenth grade. The
data were collected using field notes and video documentation. The results showed
that teacher 1 used seven strategies from twelve speaking strategies and teacher 2
used eight speaking strategies in the classes. The strategies used were Task
Completion (50%), Opinion Sharing (83.3%), Information Transfer (16.6%),
Reasoning Gap (33.3%), Questioning (100%), Brainstorming (33.3%), Scaffolding
(100%), and Drilling (66.6%). Meanwhile, the other four speaking strategies were
not used such as Information Gap, Jigsaw, Information Gathering, and Role Play.
For the implementation, the teachers gave explanation and instruction to the
students before applying the strategy. The teachers asked the students to work in
pairs or groups which made them to communicate in English. Besides, the teachers
guided the students to speak English by giving some questions. In short, although
the name of the strategy used by teachers was similar to each other, but the steps or
ways carried out by them was different from one teaching to another. Furthermore,
the teachers applied the strategies based on students’ condition, need, and material
in order to help students become more active in the process of teaching and learning.
Keywords: teaching strategies, the teaching of speaking.