An Analysis of Students’ Communication Strategies in Relation of Speaking Ability

Communication can be defined as the process of delivering information and messages in a flexible way in order to achieve a goal. Communication strategies is a way that used by students to make good conversation in order to share information in communication process. This study aimed to find out students’ communication strategies in relation of their speaking ability. The study was conducted in Department of English Language Education at State Islamic University Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. The subject of this study was students who had taken public speaking class that consisted of 30 students. This study was qualitative research. To achieve the purposes of this study the writer used questionnaires which was mentioned the students’ communication strategies in relation of their speaking ability. This study also used a semi-structured interview to support the data that gained from questionnaires. The study found that most of the student used communication strategies in order to their speaking in the result of questionnaires. In result of interview, the students often used three strategies when they were speaking in the classroom, they are nonlinguistic signals, code switching, and appeal for help. In addition, the three strategies particularly used by students during they were speaking in the classroom.