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LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES
USED BY LEARNERS IN SMA N 1 UNGARAN
Lois Kesiana Pebriani
English Departement of Satya Wacana Christian University

ABSTRACT
This paper reports the findings of language learning strategies that are used by
thestudents of SMA N 1 Ungaran. The participants were 52 students of the first, second, and
third graders. Using 30 items SILL based questionairres, the study revealed that the students used
various strategies in order to acquire English. The results indicate that six categories of strategies
were used by the students with different range of frequencies. Compensation, Cognitive, and
Social strategies were used more frequently than Memory, Metacognitive, and Affective
strategies.This result implies that the students were interested to English and they were anxious
to communicate using English. Based on the findings, implications are discussed and some
possible teaching practices proposed, which are hopefully applicable for the teachers and the
students.
Keywords: Language Learning strategies, students’ needs, learning, process, Indonesian EFL
context