The Effect of Students’ Language Learning Strategies and Motivations toward their English Achievements of the English Department; a Study at an Islamic University

Iswan, Bambang
Suwarno, Bambang
Sofyan, Dedi

JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
Vol 3, No 1 (2018)

This study aims to the degree of effects of the language learning strategies and language learning motivations to English achievements of the English Department students at an Islamic university in Indonesia. The design was the ex-post facto research. A total of 25 students were asked to complete the SILL and Motivation questionnaires. In addition, the document of the students’ TOEFL scores was used to determine the English achievements. The result of this study showed that the language learning motivations had 27.25% effect on the students’ English achievements, while the language learning strategies had 25.6% effect on their English achievements.