Abstract
In the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), the state of being successful in foreign language learning should not be only determined by how well they perform in the written test but also by how good they are at using the target language to communicate messages orally. Beside getting more exposure to the target language as the language input for language learning, implementing appropriate learning strategies has proven to be one of influential aspects in contributing to the students’ success in learning English. In relation to this, this study aims to investigate kinds of learning strategies that have been implemented by successful students majoring in Hotel Management at Vocational Program of Universitas Brawijaya. After careful selection of the successful students, in-depth investigation to reveal their kinds of learning strategies were done by observing their classroom performance, distributing questionnaire, and interviewing them for further details of information. The results show that the students have employed compensation, meta-cognitive, social and cognitive strategies in helping them learn the target language. Future researchers are suggested to conduct a study on language learning strategies involving more learners from other majors in relation to their language learning.
Highlights
Considering the place of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia, English Language Teaching (ELT) nowadays should focus on teaching English language rather than teaching about English language
Different from the previous studies, this study focuses on how students majoring in hotel management make use of language learning strategies to help them improve their communicative competence in English
With regard to the importance of hotel management students’ communicative competence in English, this study aims to investigate how successful students majoring in hotel management of vocational program at Universitas Brawijaya implement their learning strategies in learning English as A Foreign Language
Summary
Considering the place of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia, English Language Teaching (ELT) nowadays should focus on teaching English language rather than teaching about English language. The emphasis of English Language Teaching should be on linguistic competence of language learners and on the development of their communicative ability. That is based on one of the principles in language teaching and learning which is the so-called communicative competence (Brown, 2001: 68). According to Johnson & Johnson (1999:62), communicative competence is defined as the knowledge that enables someone to use a language effectively and to use the knowledge of language for communication. Nunan (1999: 226) states that to be able to speak another language, it is important to know and understand the communicative competence. Communicative competence includes linguistic competence and a range of other sociolinguistic ad conversational skills that enable the speaker to know how, what, to whom, and when to say
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