THE STRATEGIES USED BY STUDENTS TO LEARN A LANGUAGE WHEN THEY NO LONGER LEARN ONLINE: A SURVEY STUDY ON GRADE 12 STUDENTS IN ONE SCHOOL IN JAKARTA

Abstract

After the Covid-19 pandemic, lessons have been back to normal and students and teachers conduct the learning and teaching face to face at schools. The change of the three factors, i.e., the fact that the students learn at school, the time they use to commute, and the direct and easy communication with friends and teachers, might reduce their time to use gadgets or devices to access information. This might also result in the change of strategies used to learn English language, especially pronunciation. Therefore, the writer is interested in finding out what language learning strategies the students use in the normal situation and how it has changed from the ones they deployed during the pandemic. In this recent study, just like the previous one, the data was analyzed quantitatively by using a SILL questionnaire developed by Oxford (1990). The respondents of this study were grade 12 students in a senior high school in Jakarta. The respondents were not all the same students as the previous study but they all belonged to the same grade and some of them were actually the same students. The findings in this recent study show the difference in the strategies used by the students in learning English. The most strategies used in this face-to-face learning are compensation strategies, metacognitive strategies, cognitive strategies, social strategies, memory strategies, and affective strategies. The study also found the students used more strategies during the online learning period (2022) than during the onsite learning period (2023). The results of this study might be useful for teachers to give them insight about their students’ learning strategies and can help them improve their teaching in class.