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Information Technology Students’ Strategies in
Learning Vocabulary in Bahasa Inggris Profesional Course
Margaretha Wardhani

Abstract
This study investigates the vocabulary learning strategies used by students of the Professional
English Class (Bahasa Inggris Professional - BIP) at the Information Technology Faculty of
Satya Wacana Christian University. The study aims to answer the research questions “What
are the strategies commonly used by BIP in learning vocabulary?” and “What are the levels
of use of these strategies?. Fifty eight students from BIP class were selected to be the
participants in a survey using questionnaires. The result of this study shows that
metacognitive strategy was the most frequently used type of strategies. It was followed
respectively by Social strategies, Determination strategies, Memory strategies and the least
used type is Cognitive strategies. On the second research question, the result shows that
based on Oxford's result profile key,some strategies such as metacognitive and social
strategies have fair levels of use from the participants. The rest of the stategies (determination
strategies, memory and cognitive strategies) had low users of vocabulary learning strategy.

Key words: ESP, Vocabulary Learning, Learning Strategies