ELT Worldwide: Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 3, No 1 (2016): April 2016

Learning Strategies and Styles of a Part Time Job Student With Good Achievement (A Case Study of a Successful Part Time Job EFL Learner)

Rigel Sampelolo (State University of Makassar)
Haryanto Atmowardoyo (State University of Makassar)



Article Info

Publish Date
12 May 2016

Abstract

This research intended to find out the comprehensive description of learning strategies, and styles applied by the part-time job University student at the Christian University of Indonesia Toraja, and all the contributing factors that affect his learning process. The method used in this research was grounded theory. The instruments were an interview, direct observation, and documentation. The participant of the research was the part-time job student academic year 2014/2015 at English Department of Christian university of Indonesia Toraja. The result of the research showed that (i) the learning strategies performed by this student were the direct and indirect strategy. The direct strategy included memory, cognitive, compensation strategies while indirect strategy covered affective and social strategy. (ii) Learning styles perform by this student were visual and kinesthetic style. And (iii) the factors contributing to student's success were Personality, Motivation, English practicing, Social interaction, and Self-management. Keywords: learning strategies, learning styles, contributing factors to learning process, part time job student.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ELT

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

ELT Worldwide is a Journal of English Language Teaching published by the English Language Education Graduate Program of the State University of Makassar, Indonesia. This journal publishes research articles of English Language Education practices around the world. The editors welcome experts and ...