Identification of the Problems
competence. Appropriate language learning strategies result in improved proficiency and greater self-confidence. Oxford 1990:10 further claims:
....based on the culture condition and educational system, many language students even adults are passive and accustomed to being spoon-fed. They like to be told what to do
and they do only what is clearly essential to get a good grade — even if they fail to
develop useful skills in the process. Attitudes and behaviours like this make learning more difficult and must be changed, or else any effort to train learners to rely more on
themselves and use better strategies are bound to fail....
Based on the claims above, it is clear that most of learners tend to do only to what teachers on their English classrooms have told them. Although in some recent
years, regarding to the recent curriculum, the learners are being more active than they used to be in the past. But still, they are not maximizing their learning in an
efficient way. Most of them prefer being told of what they have to do rather than being actively searching the necessary information. They need these information
to enhance their learning and practicing the knowledge they already have. Thus, they only spend little time for practicing. This can be seen in the fact that in many
of classrooms, teachers spend most of their time on talking and explaining the material rather than letting the learners be actively experimenting to look for
information. Thus, learners only have little time to practice the language they learn; means that they only have few times and chances to use English.
There are many factors that cause learners to learn English less appropriately. The first is that the learners
‘ attitude as it has been mentioned earlier in the previous part that most learners are likely to be spon-fed. The second
is the environment around the learners. Mostly in Indonesia, English is used rarely in real daily communication. That causes most learners to have less chance on
using English in real comm unication. The last problem is that learners‘ learning
strategy. Most learners are being used to their way of thinking that the method of
English learning they have learnt is the only way to learn English. Learners tend to only use certain strategy rather than using various strategies. Moreover, most of
them only know little about what learning strategies that suits them best. This study will try to analyze learning strategies used by learners in
university level based on Oxford‘s SILL Strategy Inventory for Language Learning. Then it will also present how learners of English Education Study
Programme apply learning strategies to their learning. The main concern of this study will be focused on the strategies that the learners use.