Oral Communication Strategy of EFL College Learners

Abstract

The aim of this research is to identify the oral communication strategies used by EFL students at a private university in Yogyakarta. This research focuses on what strategies used by students when in speaking classes. This research used a quantitative approach with a survey method and enrolled 53 English Department students batch 2021 as a sampling. The 32 items of Oral Communication Strategy Inventory (OCSI) questionnaire was used in this research. The research results show several oral communication strategies that are most and least used by students in speaking classes along with the mean value of each strategies. The first is negotiation for meaning while speaking (M=4.113), the second is social-affective strategy (M=4.078), the third strategy is non-verbal strategy (M=4.075), the fourth is message reduction and alteration (M=3.949), the fifth strategy is fluency-oriented strategy (M=3.899), the sixth strategy is accuracy-oriented (M=3.749), the seventh strategy is attempt to think in english (M=3.745), and for the last strategy is message abandonment (M=3.245). These strategies are important for us to make our speaking to be fluency and to do easily.