TEACHERS’ STRATEGIES TO TEACH STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL AT A STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN BANJARNEGARA

Speaking has been considered as an important language skill for foreign language learning. By mastering speaking the listener could understand what other people said through their voices. In academic context, teachers become important part to teach students speaking. In this study, the researcher is curious to find out the kind of strategies used by English teachers in teaching speaking. This study used descriptive qualitative research. The research was conducted at State Senior High School Banjarnegara. This study involved three English teachers as the participants. The participants of this study taught in different classes. It was because the researcher wanted to get various teaching speaking strategies from the participants’ experiences. In collecting the data, in-depth interview was used in this study. The finding showed three teaching speaking strategies used by English teacher namely, games, modeling, and presentation. Thus, the strategies were effectively implemented to make the students speak in English.