This study is aimed at describing the speech plannings employed by the fourth semester
students of English Department, Dian Nuswantoro University in making conversation with
their friends. The data was collected by recording the students’ conversation. The
conversation lasted for about 30 minutes. The data, then, was transcribed into the written
form. In analyzing the data, the writer used the framework proposed by Faerch and Kasper
(1983:214). The result showed that the speech plannings the students usually attempted in
making conversation are: temporal variables such as pause (filled), drawls ; hesitation
phenomena such as filled pause, repetition, and correction; and other phenomena like slip,
switch, uptake signal, and interjection. From the kinds of speech plannings mentioned above
it can be said that pauses (filled) were the most attempted by the students so they could gain
time for execution. In general, the speech plannings attempted by the students indicate that
the students’ speaking readiness is low. In other words, they often find problems in their
conversation
