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Indonesian Mountain Guides' Strategies In Enhancing Their Speaking Skill
This research attempts to investigate the learning strategy used by mountain guides in
enhancing speaking skill. The research was conducted in two organizations,
WAPALAPA (Mahasiswa Pecinta Alam Universitas Pakuan) and APGI (Asosiasi
Pemandu Gunung Indonesia). There were six participants in this research, they were
four mountain guides and two mountain guides’ instructors. The qualitative approach
and descriptive method were applied in conducting this research. The close-ended
questionnaire, the open-ended questionnaire and the interview were the instruments to
get the data. The data were analysed, drawn, described, transcribed and concluded to
find out the strategies used by mountain guides. The result of the data showed that the
strategies used by mountain guides are cognitive strategy, metacognitive strategy and
social strategy. First, cognitive strategy was used 56% in order to enhance speaking
skill by taking a note, making a conclusion, analysing a sentence or word, guessing a
meaning and reading an information in order to enhance their speaking skill. In
metacognitive, there were 52% of mountain guides used metacognitive strategy in order
to enhance speaking skill by learning based on their interests, having a secret strategy,
exercising by themselves, enhancing only for their career and imitating someone in
order to enhance speaking skill. In social strategy, mountain guides 100% fully used
this strategy by speaking to a partner in their job, communicating to their client, asking
a question in English, discussing any topic with people, exercising with others and
practicing to speak to everyone in order to enhance their speaking skill. Each of
strategies has an important role for mountain guides in order to enhance mountain
guides’ speaking skill. But, the most strategy used by mountain guide is social strategy.
They definitely 100% applied social strategy as their technique in order to enhance their
speaking skill.
Keywords; Speaking Skill, Types of Speaking, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Strategy,
Metacognitive Strategy, Social Strategy, English for Specific Purposes, Mountain
Guide.
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