Affective Strategies The Function of Language Learning Strategies

The second study is entitled The Role of Gender and Language Learning Strategies in Learning English by Aslan. In this study, the focus is about to investigate learning strategies used by EFL, to find the amount of strategies and the domain differences that strategy used, to reveal the link between strategy use and success levels, to find out the difference in strategy use between gender, and its influence on their achievement. The participants were 257 153 males and 104 females students of Atilim University English Preparatory School. The data were gathered through SILL of Oxford 1990 and analyzes through SPSS 15.0, independent t-test, and ANOVA test. The findings revealed that use of language learning strategies are positively effective and females are more successful than males in terms of achievement test. It shows that there is significant connection between gender, achievement, and language learning strategies. In this case, the difference of the second previous study is also the subject. The writer only wants to examine the learning strategies used by English learners based on academic level. 29 The last study is titled Language Learning Strategies: Investigating the Effect of Explicit L1 Strategy Instruction in English Language Learning of King Saud University Female Students in Saudi Arabia by Abdulaziz. This study aim is to investigate the relationship between explicit first language strategy instruction and language learning among the female learners, to examine whether any differences in strategy use after strategy instruction, and to investigate the effect of strategy course on subject language proficiency levels by the end of semester. The participants of this study were female English major students of ‘level two’ at the College of Languages and Translation. The research design is quasi- experimental and questionnaire of the SILL. The finding shows that there was no significant improvement in strategy use. Moreover, students from the experimental group had significant decrease in metacognitive strategy use. In this 29 Oktay Aslan, “The Role of Gender and Language Learning Strategies in Learning English, English Language Teaching Department, Middle East Technical University, 2009, ” Thesis, retrieved at https:etd.lib.metu.edu.trupload12611098index.pdf. case, the difference of this study is also the subject. The writer did not focus on gender at all. 30 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. 30 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.