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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe study is about the Compensatory Strategies. Compensatory
Strategies is processes or strategies that operate on the conceptual and linguistic
knowledge as the alternative ways to make the conversation keep going on when
their linguistic weaknesses make them difficult to communicate their intended
meanings. This study revealed the types of Compensatory Strategies used by the
students of Speaking II and Speaking VI of the English Department, Petra
Christian University and similarities and differences in the use of Compensatory
Strategies by the students of Speaking II and the students of Speaking VI. The
writer did this study by asking the subjects to describe a situational picture with
some problematic words and some concrete pictures in English. Then, the writer
compared the types of Compensatory Strategies used between the students of
Speaking II and the students of Speaking VI. Finally, the writer found out that the
students of Speaking II and Speaking VI used Analytic Conceptual Strategy,
Holistic Conceptual Strategy and Linguistic Strategy of Transfer in the session.
However, students of Speaking II used more Conceptual Strategies and Linguistic
Strategies than the students of Speaking VI. The differences are in the use of the
types of the Compensatory Strategies. For Holistic Conceptual Strategy, the
students of Speaking II prefer to use Superordinate word but the students of
Speaking VI prefer to use Coordinate word. In Linguistic Strategy, the students of
Speaking II tended to use Borrowing strategy while the students of Speaking VI
tended to use Literal Translation strategy. These differences possibly indicate that
different duration of learning, quantity of vocabulary and linguistic knowledge
and also students? awareness to communicate may cause differences in the use of
Compensatory Strategies.