Abstract
Different students who learn English as the second language has various problems and strategies to overcome. A case study on an international student who learns English as a second language in an English speaking country raised some problems he had and offered some strategies he used during the process of learning. The progress of learning from the first time coming and studying at a college in Australia was mainly the core data collected on this study. The data copes from his formal academic learning experience and also from informal situation that he met at his everyday life. This study applied qualitative research method and use interview and recording as the instruments. The data were analized through three stages: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The results of the study show that the learner experiences a range of English learning problems which happened after his coming to Australia and some strategies he used to overcome.
Highlights
As an international language, English is used as a medium of interaction and communication among people from different parts of the world
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Since the purpose of this research is to collect the information on the problems and the strategies during the English Second Language (ESL) student learns English as the second language, the writer use qualitative method to get the description information in the form of words or pictures rather than number about the phenomena
The focus of this report was on the speaker’s achievement and weakness, in spoken English as second language (ESL), strategies to overcome the weaknesses from the speaker’s perspective and completed with some suggestions from literatures related to his conditions in order to acquire English as a second language successfully
Summary
English is used as a medium of interaction and communication among people from different parts of the world. It becomes the most popular language in the world. It requires understanding and serious willingness to learn, since there are many reasons why people learn this language. One of them is knowing the fact that it is one of the most important lingua francas in today’s globalized world. For some English Second Language (ESL) students from countries like Indonesia, Vitenam or some other Asian countries which do not use English as the first language, getting information on how English is learnt is very important. Some techniques, methods or so called as strategies might be different to the others, while it is possible that some of those ways might be appropriate or suitable to be applied among some learners
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