The English VS Non-English Leaning Strategies Used by The Students In Learning English: A Survey On International Classroom in One Public University in Indonesia

Abstract

Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge and knowledge, mastery, skills and character, as well as the formation of attitudes and beliefs in students. To achieve the goals of learning, various kinds of learning techniques, methods, and strategies can be used in the classroom this research was conducted to investigate what kind of learning strategies used by the English students and non-English students from international classroom in learning English. This study was conducted by using survey design and the data was collected in one public university in Jambi Province, Indonesia. There were 44 students consisting 20 students from non-English department and 24 students from English department. There were the differences found between strategy used by English department students and non-English department students. From the result metacognitive which became the most highly use strategy by non-English department students tend to used metacognitive strategies. However, students from English department used social strategies as their learning strategies it is important for language learners to know what learning strategies suit them. Because every student has a difference learning strategies in learning English.  However, there are other factors that influence the success of students in learning languages, such as motivation, gender, learning style, language teaching method and others. This is a suggestion for future researchers to conduct research related to this matter.