Proceedings of ISELT FBS Universitas Negeri Padang
Vol 3 (2015): Proceedings of 3nd International Seminar on English Language Teaching (ISELT)

THE BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF TWO ENGLISH LEARNERS FROM KUANTAN SINGINGI RIAU

Masyhur Masyhur (FKIP of Riau University)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Aug 2015

Abstract

This paper reports a biographic enquiry of two tertiary English learners from Kuantan Singingi Riau and seeks to capture the developmental processes of the leamers' Ianguage learning approaches. By sharing their past language learning experiences, the two learners verbalized their struggles in language learning and revealed the deep impact that their learning settings had on their perceptions of self and language leaming. Their adopted leaming approaches, as revealed in their biographical accounts, seem to be extremely exam-oriented and are dependent on the learners' self-will and effort as well as teachers' support and attention. Both learners' accounts suggest that their language learning approaches are influenced by the contextual discourses about learning English, stressful social processes and a sense of threatened self-identity as English major graduates in a highly competitive educational context.

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