LEARNING STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY THE STUDENTS IN LEARNING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AT THE ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF FKIP UNIVERSITAS BENGKULU IN

This study was a descriptive research. The aim of this study was to investigate the strategy used by the students in Learning English at the English Education Study Program of Bengkulu University. The subjects of the research were 60 students of the English Education Study Program, consisting of the second, fourth and sixth Semester students, 20 students from each semester. The data were collected by using questionnaire. The questionnaire was modified from the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning or SILL version 7.0 (Oxford, 1990). The results show that the mean score of Memory Strategies was 3.0 (15.4% of the students sometimes used memory strategies), the Cognitive Strategies was 2.8 (14.8% of the students sometimes used cognitive strategies), the Compensation Strategies was 3.5 (17.94% of the students often used Compesation Strategies), the Metacognitive strategies was 3.7 (18.97% of the students often used Metacognitive Strategies), the Affective Strategies was 3.3 (16.92% of the students sometimes used Affective Strategies), and the Social Strategies was 3.2 (16.41% of the students sometimes used Social Strategies. The most frequent Strategy used by the students was item number 19 which was used by 75% of the respondents students. In conclusion, the finding indicates that the English Education Study Program students have applied appropriate strategies in learning English