SUMMARY
The primary aim and the focus of this study were to investigate students’ metacoginitive strategies awareness and their relationship with speaking ability. The participants were 31 Indonesian junior college students who have taken speaking course. The study gained that students’ metacognitive strategies awareness was categorized on good awareness with 77.9 % of use. Following that, the research used Correlational Research design and found that there was a positive correlation between the variables. In addition, the correlation was categorized in strong association. It meant that students’ level of awareness in planning, monitoring, managing, solving and evaluating the learning process in order to reach the goal significantly affect their ability.