106 FOUR CORNERS: A STRATEGY TO ENHANCE SPEAKING By: Rekha Asmara English Language Education Study Program at FKIP Islamic University of Ogan Komering Ilir Kayuagung, South Sumatera rekha.asmara@gmail.com Abstract: Speaking plays a vital role in running the process of communication smoothly. By speaking, a learner can produce ideas on mind and deliver it to others through the utterances. In an effort to reach a subtle interaction between two or more speakers, some difficulties may arise because of less having vocabulary knowledge, motivation, or suitable materials. Let alone, students lack confidence and have no supporting environment to practice speaking.These difficulties can hinder students from being fluent and accurate speakers of English. Thus, Four Corners strategy was offered to reduce those difficulties. Four Corners strategy was convinced to enhance the students‟ speaking ability. Keywords: four corners strategy, speaking INTRODUCTION In the process of learning English, every language learner needs to have good ability in applying their linguistic knowledge and competence in using the spoken language. Speaking plays a vital rolein running the process of communication smoothly. By speaking, a learner is able to produce ideas on mind and deliver it to others through the utterances. Dawes (2008, p. 127) defines speaking as a way of ensuring that everyone is given supportive feedback and how they are getting on. In other words, speaking is not only said as the process of sending and receiving the message, but it is also the process of responding to what the speaker uttered. In an effort to reach a subtle interaction between two or more speakers,some difficulties may arise. According to Rahayu and Jufri (2013, p. 491), the main reasons causing students‟ difficulties to express orally was lack of motivation, self-confidence, practice, and suitable material.The three former reasons come from the students, meanwhile, the