A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ SPEAKING LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY GRADE 9 STUDENTS IN GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS: THE CASE OF THE JIGJIGA BOARDING SCHOOL AND THE SPARK PRIVATE SCHOOL

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to compare Students’ Strategies of learning Speaking Skill in Government and the Private School. The researcher focused mainly on students speaking strategies. Integrative research design was employed to study the Strategies in the classroom. To study these strategies, the researcher used systematic sampling and available sampling to select the subjects of the study. The data were collected from teachers and students through questionnaire and interview. This finding indicates private school students were seen using better Students Speaking learning strategies with ample language resources help to develop their strategies of learning speaking skill. The consequences of inappropriate use of learning speaking skill strategies at government school has resulted in the weak performance of the students in speaking when compared with the private. To that end, this research paper provides recommendations that could bring about a change in the practice and use of learning speaking skill strategies in the grade level studied so that techniques and procedures, appropriate language resources of learning speaking could be employed.