ESP Students and Language Learning Strategies

Mawaddah Hidayati
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ABSTRACT
This research aimed to investigate; ESP students and their English language learning strategies, and
the relationship of them. ESP students are faced the difficultness in learning English, as such: a)
English was difficult in which they thought that they might not be able to speak English if they spent
only one hour a day learning it.; b) they did not learn English intensively as English was only on the
first year of their college life; c) they have a different context, different level, and different learning
experiences of English. Regarding of those reasons, language learning strategies can help ESP
students to skim those problems. They must use the specific need to learn English. The selection
and use of language learning strategies are needed. From the findings, it can be observed that indirect
strategy which helps learners regulate their learning process i.e. social, metacognitive, and affective
strategies were in the upper range of preferred strategies of the participants. While direct strategy that
helps students to understand, use, and produce language i.e. compensation, cognitive and memory
strategies were the least preferred strategies.

Keywords: ESP Students, Language Learning Strategies.