STRATEGIES OF LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE BY INDONESIAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

Abstract: English communication skill is highlighted as the main goal in learning language. Mostly students commonly faced psychological and linguistic problems during English learning process. Due the complexities of learning languages, the language learners must take an action by implementing several kinds of language learning strategies. These facts urged the researcher to do a descriptive non-experimental quantitative approach on students’ language learning strategies to fiugure out how language learning strategies are used by Indonesian’s junior high school students in learning English as a foreign language. The researcher selected the third year students of senior high school especially who take the excellent class with English score around 80-100 as the participants. In six language learning strategies¸there found Metacognitive is claimed as the most frequently used by the participant by gaining mean 3.63 which means as high average and usually used in learning English, followed by compensation with 3.36, cognitive with3.34, social 3.14, affective with 2.99, and memory with 2.89 are claimed as the medium average and sometimes used by the participants during the English learning in the class. Analyzing every item spesifically, the high average used by the participants in learning a language found 20 items that include cognitive strategy 30% with 6 characteristic items, metacognitive strategy 25% with 5 characteristic items, compensation strategy 20% with 4 characteristic items, memory strategy 10% with 2 characteristic items, affective strategy 10% with 2 characteristic items, and social strategy 5% with 1 characteristic item.

Keywords: SILL, English, and Foreign Language