learning language which can make learners improve the knowledge of the language.
E. Previous Related Studies
Many researchers already conducted about language learning strategy. In this part of discussion, the researcher explained about how this study is related to
the previous study. The first study is entitled Learning Strategies Associated with Gender
Differences and Strategy Choices: A Case Study of Taiwanese Students in English Medium Programs by Lee. The purpose of this study is to investigate the learners
of Taiwanese learning strategies, examine the gender differences, and learning strategy according to students with different academic levels. The participants of
this study were 214 Taiwanese students in the International College of Ming Chuan University MCU. This study used mixed-method approaches. The
instruments involved survey which is about the participants’ background and
revised questionnaire adopted from Oxford’s learning strategy SILL version 7.0 and interview. The result of this study reveals that Taiwanese college students
moderately employ learning strategies in English learning. Moreover, there is significant difference in learning strategy use between female and male. Male
students tend to employ more learning strategies than female counterparts. However, students with different academic levels do not have significance
difference on their strategy use. In this case, the difference in this previous study with this study is the purposes. The similarity of this study, both of the previous
researcher and the writer used SILL and interview as their instrument. In this study, the writer focuses on investigating the learners learning strategies based on
academic level of the students, which are 4
th
semester students and 6
th
semester students.
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Jia-Jing Lee, “Learning Strategies Associated with Gender Differences and Strategy
Choices: A Case Study of Taiwanese Students in English Medium Programs, Department of Applied
English, Ming
Chuan University,
2010, ”
Thesis, retrieved
at http:ethesys.lib.mcu.edu.twETD-dbETD-searchgetfile?URN=etd-0615110-
123328filename=etd-0615110-123328.pdf.