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English as an international language serves its importance in many fields such as finance, medicine, technology and education. The four main skills in the acquisition of English are speaking, listening, reading and writing. In order to converse well in this global world, speaking skill is the most important for communication. Language learners deploy many strategies such as cognitive, metacognitive, compensation affective, social and memory strategies to enhance the speaking skills. Therefore, this study is aimed to investigate the language learning strategies employed by Form Four male students. A mixed method design was employed with semi structured interviews and questionnaires as the instruments for data collection. In this intervention, 40 Form 4 students from a secondary school in Negeri Sembilan were selected as the participants. The findings of this paper showed that the most frequent language learning strategies implemented were social, affective and memory strategies in the acquisition of speaking skill. Based on this finding, more studies are expected to be conducted to identify the application of other skills to help the students strive in learning English.
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In-Text Citation: (Segaran et al., 2021)
To Cite this Article: Segaran, V. C., Sanmugam, S., Ismail, M. I., Siddek, N. A. J., Kamal, S. S. M., & Hashim, H. (2021). Language Learning Strategies (LLS) used by the Form Four Male Secondary School Students in Speaking Skill. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(7), 1382–1394.
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