LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES
USED BY LEARNERS IN SMA N 1 UNGARAN
Lois Kesiana Pebriani
English Departement of Satya Wacana Christian University
ABSTRACT
This paper reports the findings of language learning strategies that are used by thestudents of SMA N 1 Ungaran. The participants were 52 students of the first, second, and third graders. Using 30 items SILL based questionairres, the study revealed that the students used various strategies in order to acquire English. The results indicate that six categories of strategies were used by the students with different range of frequencies. Compensation, Cognitive, and Social strategies were used more frequently than Memory, Metacognitive, and Affective strategies.This result implies that the students were interested to English and they were anxious to communicate using English. Based on the findings, implications are discussed and some possible teaching practices proposed, which are hopefully applicable for the teachers and the students.
