Language Learning Strategies Of English Education Department Of FITK (A Comparison Descriptive Study at the Fourth and the Sixth Students)

The objective of this research was to describe learning strategies employed by the students of English Education Department in UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta which pursue in the fourth semester and sixth semester. They were chosen based on their different academic levels. There are sixty students from the Department of English Education that are divided into thirty students for each semester. The participants were examined through Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) questionnaire version 7.0 as the measurement instrument to check the learning strategy preference. The data were processed and analyzed through SPSS (22.0) to find the most and the least strategy used by the students. The result of the study reveals the FITK students used all learning strategies, including memory, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, affective and social. For the most frequently used by the students of the fourth semester students and the sixth semester students is metacognitive strategy. Whereas, the least frequently used by the 4th semester students is memory strategy and by the 6th semester is social strategy