Language learning strategies used by students through English Discoveries at the English intensive class of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

There have been many studies that have developed various learning strategies, especially in the realm of language, to support the learning process. However, each learner learns with a different strategy that they think is most suitable for him or her. Oxford (1990) classifies learning strategies into six, namely memory, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, affective, and social strategies. Then, the researcher conducted this study to find out what strategies were applied by UINSA students in the first semester to learn English in intensive English classes. This study involved 367 students participating in intensive English courses at UINSA for the 2019 academic year as samples. The researcher gave them a questionnaire to find out the learning strategies they applied in learning English through English Discoveries and its factor that affected students to apply it. As a result, this study came to the conclusion that most of the students chose to use a compensation strategy. In other words, they prefer to learn the language by using a dictionary or directly asking their lecturers about things they do not know. The compensation strategy is the most widely used strategy, reaching 145 users. While the strategy that ranks below is the cognitive strategy whose users are only slightly more than half the number of users of the compensation strategy. Besides, the factor that influenced them to apply that strategy are motivation, gender, cultural background, attitude, type of task, L2 stage, learning styles, intelligence, and personality