case, the difference of this study is also the subject. The writer did not focus on gender at all.
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From the previous study above, it can be seen that language learning strategy has a big impact for students to learning the language better. Moreover,
there are so many facts that interesting that need to be investigate, like gender and achievement. In the first and second previous studies show that achievement has
an important role in the use of learning strategy. Additionally, all of them also mention that they wanted to examine were there any difference between males
and females with learning strategy. It can be seen that achievement and gender have a special issues in language education. However, in this study, the writer
only focused to describe what language that the learners of English education departm
ent students’ use in the 4
th
and 6
th
semester students.
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May Abdulaziz Abumelha, “Language Learning Strategies: Investigating the Effect of
Explicit L1 Strategy Instruction in English Language Learning of King Saud University Female Students in Saudi Arabia, English Department, King Saud University, 2008,
” Thesis, retrieved at http:repository.ksu.edu.sajspuibitstream123456789193251Master20thesis20May20Ab
umelha.pdf.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Time and Place of the Study
This research was implemented in Mei 2015 in English Education Department of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University.
B. Research Design
This research was conducted using descriptive research design to answer the questions of the study. Descriptive study was chose due to the type of the
study which is to know the learning strategies of the English education department students. As Rangarajan and Shields elaborate that descriptive research is a tool to
describe data and characteristics of the population or phenomenon being studied.
1
Based on the explanation before, this research design is appropriate for the present study.
Meanwhile, this research was also performed using survey design. Creswell defined survey is a procedure in research which investigators administer
a survey to a sample or to the entire population of people to describe the attitudes, opinions, behaviors, or characteristics of the population.
2
Moreover, Gay et. al., explained that descriptive research is significant as surveys abound in educational
research and are utilized by many writers as an investigative tool to collect data in order to address educational questions.
3
In conclusion, it can be seen that the descriptive study research describes about population and phenomenon that happened in real. The insight being
investigated was related on English education department students’ learning strategy.
1
Patricia M. Shields and Nandhini Rangarajan, A Playbook for Research Methods: Integrating Conceptual Frameworks and Project Management, USA: New Forums Press, 2013,
pp. 109 —158.
2
John W. Cresswell, Research Design-Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Method Approaches Third Edition, USA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009, pp. 145
—146.
3
L. R. Gay, Geoffrey E. Mills, Peter Airasian, Educational research: Competencies for analysis and applications
–Tenth Edition, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc., 2012, p.184.
