Speaking become one of the important skills among other skills such as listening, reading and writing. However, some students felt not confident to deliver words or sentences in English. The purpose of this study was to find teachers’ strategies to improve students’ self confidence in speaking at SMK 1 and SMK 2 in Tamiang Layang. This study used qualitative study with two instruments which are interview and observation. The participants were four teachers from two different schools which are SMK 1 and SMK 2. Based on the finding, there was found four strategies that the four teachers used in speaking class activity. Those strategies are role-play, small group discussion, storytelling, and songs. These strategies were very helpful to encourage students’ self confidence in speaking, because each strategy giving a chance for students to pratice speaking. Besides that, the advantages that students got from those, help students increase their vocabulary and pronunciation, build an interaction between passive and active students, and make the class more fun and not boring. Keywords: Speaking, self-confidence, teachers’ strategies.

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提高学生口语自信心的教师策略：对婆罗洲中部两所职业学校的研究

口语已成为听力，阅读和写作等其他技能中的重要技能之一。但是，有些学生对用英语表达单词或句子感到不自信。这项研究的目的是寻找教师的策略，以提高学生在达米拉央SMK 1和SMK 2演讲时的自信心。本研究采用定性研究和访谈两种手段。参加者是来自两个不同学校的四位老师，分别是SMK 1和SMK2。根据调查结果，发现了四位老师在课堂活动中使用的四种策略。这些策略是角色扮演，小组讨论，讲故事和唱歌。这些策略非常有助于激发学生的口语自信，因为每种策略都为学生提供了实践发言的机会。除此之外，学生从中学到的好处还包括，帮助学生增加词汇量和发音，在被动和主动学生之间建立互动关系，使课堂变得更加有趣而不乏味。关键词：口语，自信，教师策略。