A NATURALISTIC STUDY ON COMMUNICATION STRATEGY USED BY THE SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS IN SPEAKING CLASS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH SURAKARTA

Dini Inge Anggraini(1*),

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Abstract

This research aims to describe the communication strategies used by second
semester students in Speaking class of Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta.

The study is also as a reference for the better problem-management in teachinglearning

process. The data of research contain communication strategies used
bythe second semester students in Speaking class of English Education
Department of Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta in 2015/2016 academic
year. The sources of data are derived from event, informant, and document. The
writer investigates classes of Speaking, with 8 students as the subjects of the
research. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the data.
The data are based on Celce-Murcia taxonomy of communication strategies.
The result of this study shows that there are five types with fourteen subtypes of
communication strategies, the most dominant types of communication strategies
used by second semester students in Speaking class is fillers with 31,05%, and
the rarely type of communication strategies used by students are topic
avoidance, word coinage, literal translation, self-initiated repair with 0,53%.
The result above implies that teaching communication strategies is needed for
students who still have limited knowledge in the target language. To maintain
students‟ communication, communication strategies as a subject in Speaking
class will make the students aware when they communicate with the others.
Key words: communication strategies, speaking

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