Research Benefits Learners` beliefs about autonomy in language learning

background and educational setting affect beliefs. All three studies relied on the administration of the BALLI. Tumposky 1991 concluded that culture contributes to motivation, while Yang 1993 and Kuntz 1996 found that ethnicity and culture influence the beliefs held by learners. According to Gardner Miller 2002, learners bring their own beliefs, goals, attitudes and decisions to learning and these influence how they approach their learning. Therefore, their beliefs about language learning or learner autonomy may vary greatly from one to another. To a large extent, the beliefs that learners hold about language learning may have a significant impact on their learning outcomes. Cognitivists assume that learning attitudes and behaviors are conditioned by a higher order of mental representations concerning the nature of language and language learning. Learners‟ beliefs, as a part of metacognitive knowledge, exert either positive or negative effects on learning practice . Learners‟ insightful beliefs about language learning process, their own aptitudes and the use of effective learning strategies will help their learning and assist them to improve a more active and independent attitude which allows them to take care of their own learning. However, uninformed beliefs about language learning may lead to dependence on less effective strategies, causing in poor cognitive performance, classroom anxiety and a negative attitude towards autonomy. Studies in the area of learner beliefs have shown that learners hold an extensive variety of beliefs about language and language learning and that these may influence learning attitudes and behavior. In summary, learners‟ belief about language learning is to define as learners individual opinion or individual thought concerning what things they assume as right or wrong dealing with themselves as language learners, the nature of the language being learned, the nature of an English as foreign language learning process. In this research, those beliefs are to elicit and record through learners opinion or feeling regarding three major components of the difficulty of language learning, the existence of foreign language attitude, and the nature of language learning of acquiring English skill.

2. The Characteristic of Language Learner

Learners have certain characteristics which are different from one another; their characteristics will lead more or less successful language learning. Learners characteristic will affect the language acquisition; extrovert learner and introvert learner will express different acquisition. Learners personality will also take an important part in gaining the target learning. Some learners have a much easier time of learning than others; there are some characteristics of language learner that influence their successful of learning. They are intelligence, aptitude, personality, motivation and attitudes, learner preferences, and learner beliefs Lightbown and Spada, 2006. Every element has their own roles on the effort of attaining the successful of language learning. It is belief that PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI