Abstract
The article aims at finding out students’ learner identity and difference through English Club Meeting at Megarezky Universitas. This research investigated twenty members of English Club Meeting of Megarezky University (E-Comers) who come regularly and five respondents for interview. The method of this research is used observation, field note, and interview. The data collecting were analyzed by presented, analyzed, discussed and interpreted. The result of this research categorized four factors in order to understand learner identity, motivation, learning strategies, learner autonomy, and cross linguistic influence. In motivation, students are motivated due to the value of group community, students’ personal goal, and senior members’ role. While in learning strategies; coping and communication strategies are appeared on this research. Talking about learner autonomy, it is revealed that students’ control is the most effective strategies. So, it can be concluded that cross-linguistic influences students in English learning process. In conclusion, these four factors help teachers to understand students’ identity and difference. Every student has different motivation, learning strategies, students’ autonomy and cross-linguistic influence factors which English Meeting Club tends to accommodate students’ identity in one group activity.
Highlights
Understanding learner identity and difference is one of important factors to achieve learning success especially for teachers or lecturers
There were several ways to investigate learners’ identity, it refers to classroom interaction during teacher and students’ interaction
Because relax and casual environment were expected to understand better learners’ identity rather than through classroom interaction. It will focus on English club meeting at Megarezky University under the name EComer (English Community of Megarezky) which created by English Education study program
Summary
Understanding learner identity and difference is one of important factors to achieve learning success especially for teachers or lecturers. English meeting club was one of informal education setting which can help identifying students’ identity and difference, which almost similar in classroom interaction but the setting should be more relax and casual. The aim of this research is to find out learner identity and difference through English club meeting at Megarezky Universitas.
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