Enhancing speaking strategies for improving students’ performance: A best practice at an Islamic English club

Nur Hayati, Taranindya Zulhi Amalia

Abstract


A fundamental outcome of language learning is speaking. Nevertheless, it is regarded as the most challenging skill to master in EFL for students. It was found that the students of the Islamic English Club experienced some factors that affected their speaking performance, namely fear of making mistakes, lack of confidence, social anxiety, communication apprehension, as well as error-linguistic factors. The present study attempts to explore excellent practices as strategies to improve students' speaking performances at an Islamic English club. The qualitative-descriptive approach was used in this study. The data were collected through interviews and observations. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively to find out strategies to enhance their speaking performance. The results revealed that there are several strategies used by the Islamic English club to improve students’ speaking performance, which could be seen in terms of religious strategies, memory strategies, cognitive strategies, metacognitive strategies, affective strategies, and social strategies. In conclusion, it can be affirmed that those strategies could help students increase their English-speaking performance confidently.

Keywords


Speaking; performance; strategies; Islamic; English Club

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/icetli.v2i1.760

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