relation: http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9441/ title: INDONESIAN MOUNTAIN GUIDES’ STRATEGIES IN ENHANCING THEIR SPEAKING SKILL creator: Yanuar, Ramadhan description: ABSTRACT 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. date: 2021-07 type: Thesis type: NonPeerReviewed format: text language: en identifier: http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9441/1/Skripsi%20Yanuar%20Ramadhan%20031114067.pdf identifier: Yanuar, Ramadhan (2021) INDONESIAN MOUNTAIN GUIDES’ STRATEGIES IN ENHANCING THEIR SPEAKING SKILL. Skripsi thesis, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan.