An analysis of gifted students’ speaking learning strategies in English Department of IAIN Padangsidimpuaan

Hasibuan, Sakinah Muliana (2018) An analysis of gifted students’ speaking learning strategies in English Department of IAIN Padangsidimpuaan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was intended to analyze the gifted students’ speaking learning strategies in English Department of IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The research was a qualitative approach and it was a case study. The informants were gifted students in English Department of IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The gifted students were fourth semester, sixth semester and eight semester. The data were collected through questionnaire based on Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) version 7.0 developed by Oxford (1990) and interview guidance by Naiman (1996) about speaking learning strategies proposed Oxford (1990) that had been validated. The finding showed that all the speaking learning strategies from the package were used by the gifted students of English Department at IAIN Padangsidimpuan, but the variety of the use was different. It suggests the existence of persona; references among the students in term of belief upon which they think their speaking learning strategies will be successful. The gifted students have their own strategies in learning speaking. The ways and the steps are different. All the strategies were used by the gifted students, but the variety of the use was different. The situation upon which the gifted students learned speaking to make their learning successful revealed high variety. The places where the gifted students learned speaking English were in formal situation (classroom, TOEFL class and debate club) and informal situation (bedroom and everywhere). The gifted students’ dominant used of learning strategy for speaking were the dominant used by the gifted students for speaking were memory strategies (100%), compensation strategies (100%), meta-cognitive strategies (100%), affective strategies (100%) and social strategies (100%). So, the findings are useful for readers to have better understanding of language learning strategy options for speaking.

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