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Strategies Used by First Year Students to Cope With English as Medium
Instruction
Prima Riani Cahyaningrum

Abstract
As an English Language Teaching Department, English become an obligatory language
which used by lecturers and students in all of academic purposes in this department. This
study was conducted to find strategies used by 2011 students of English Language Teaching
(ELT) Department of SWCU to cope with English as Medium of Instruction (EMI) during
their Integrated Course (IC) class. It focused on students strategies which discussed based on
classification of strategies according to Oxford (1990). The data was gathered through semistructured interview to 20 students of ELT Department of SWCU year 2011 and then
analyzed qualitatively. The finding showed that there were three strategies used by more than
a half of the 20 interviewees. The first strategy was social strategy, which is done by building
relationship with classmates. Second was metacognitive, which is done by optimizing
speaking English to overcome the use of English to communicate inside and outside the
classroom. The third was applying cognitive strategy through note taking, summarizing and
highlighting. The pedagogical implication of the finding is for the first year English learners
in ELT department in overcoming the use of EMI. The finding is beneficial to help them find
the kinds of strategy which are proven to be useful by their senior.
Keyword: English as Medium if Instruction (EMI), Integrated Course (IC), Social strategy,
Cognitive strategy, Metacognitive strategy.