Name:
Dariani
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321 410 103
Essay
of Learning language.
Lyons
(1981:6) point out that “most of them have taken the view of language are
systems of symbol designed, as it were, for the purpose of communication.
English is presented as foreign language in Indonesia, so it should be learned.
(Maghvirah et al, 2012) language learning is hoped that can help the students
to know his/her self, their culture and the other culture. It means that the
students can know the other culture when they know the other language. English
as foreign language, the students have difficulties to learn the language.
Base
on interviewer some students that learned English, they have difficulties in
learning English. They have no concept in English, moreover, there are four
skills in English that should be master; they are speaking, reading, writing,
and listening. Some of students said that one of the difficulties in English is
the written form is different with the pronunciation itself. So they always
open dictionary when they want to speak each other.
Because
learning language is difficult, it is needed some strategy in learning
language. ones of them is Oxford's (1990) Classification of Language Learning
Strategies. Oxford
(1990:9) sees the aim of language learning strategies as being oriented towards
the development of communicative competence. Oxford divides language learning
strategies into two main classes, direct and indirect, which are further
subdivided into 6 groups. In Oxford's system, metacognitive strategies help learners
to regulate their learning. Affective strategies are concerned with the
learner's emotional requirements such as confidence, while social strategies
lead to increased interaction with the target language. Cognitive strategies
are the mental strategies learners use to make sense of their learning, memory
strategies are those used for storage of information, and compensation
strategies help learners to overcome knowledge gaps to continue the
communication. So, communicative competence is one of strategy in learning
English that is affective strategy. We do not only learn the language, but we
also learned how to be self confidence when communicate each other.
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