TEACHER STRATEGIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN KERINCI

This study aimed to know the strategies used by teacher at senior high schools to teach speaking. This thesis employedqualitative descriptiveresearch. The researcher applied the purposive sampling to identifying the sample of the study. In getting data, the researcher examined interviews to seven teachers and five students in five senior high schools in Kerinci such as, SMA N 1 Kerinci, MAN 1 Kerinci, SMA N 2 Kerinci, MAN 2 Kerinci, and SMA N 13 Kerinci. The result revealed that the strategies used by the teachers were discussion, role-play, listening song, speech, storytelling, lecture, jigsaw, dialogue, and content perception. The impact of speaking strategies used by the teachers are make students interested in learning, improve their speaking ability, built their motivation to speaking, and can communicate confidently with each other. Schools should be pay attention to the problems face by the teachers and students in learning English and find the solutions so that students can study well in the class. Hope that in the future teachers can improve the quality of strategies in teaching speaking. For other researchers to additional knowledge about teacher strategies in teaching speaking so can add these research theories for better solutions.