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<p align="center"> <strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p> <strong>DESI ELVIANTI ANWAR, 2311.011. Students’ Learning Strategies in Speaking at the Fourth Semester of English Education Department of IAIN Bukittinggi in academic year 2014/2015. A thesis. State Islamic Institute Bukittinggi. 2015.</strong></p> <p> This research was done because the researcher found several problems in speaking in English Education Department of IAIN Bukittinggi. The problems were some students were lack of vocabulary, some students still had anxiety in speaking, some students did not use the appropriate strategies in speaking. Hence, this research was done at IAIN Bukittinggi to know what learning strategies are used in speaking and the most frequently strategy is used by the fourth semester English students.</p> <p> The design of this research was descriptive quantitative research. The data was gotten through questionnaire by using Likert scale. The total of sample is 32 students. The researcher used random sampling in determining the sample because the fourth semester English students more than 100 people.</p> <p> There are two findings in this reserach, the first all of students have already used all learning strategies in speaking. The strategies were memory, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, affective and social strategies. Second, metacognitive strategies (78,30%) is most frequently used and memory strategies (63,13%) is the most less frequently used by students. In conclusions, the fourth semester English Students of IAIN Bukittinggi have already used learning strategies in speaking and the most frequently used by them is metacognitive strategies.</p> <p> </p> <p> <strong>Keywords: Students’ learning strategies, Speaking.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p>