LANGUAGE LEARNING
STRATEGIES IN LISTENING SKILL: THE PROFILE OF FOURTH
SEMESTER STUDENTS IN IKIP PGRI PONTIANAK This thesis begins with the premise that language learning strategies are
important to students in listening skill, and that this applies no less to other skills in
language learning. After issues of terminology and definition are addressed, there
is a discussion of the theoretical framework of the language learning strategies and
listening skill concept. Specifically, this research aimed to describe the use of
language learning strategies in listening skill by fourth semester students of English
Education Study Program IKIP PGRI Pontianak in the academic year of 2016/2017.
This research was a one-shot survey descriptive quantitative research where the
population in this study was fourth semester students of English Education Study
Program in IKIP PGRI Pontianak. A complete enumeration of the population
involved 125 students as the participants of this study.
Strategy Inventory of Language Learning (SILL) consisting 50 statements
rated in five Likert-scale, a questionnaire by Oxford (1990) was the instrument
utilized in collecting the data. The data obtained analysed by using descriptive
statistics analysis. The result suggested that the strategy use of fourth semester
students in listening skill covered the complete classification including six types of
strategies (memory, cognitive, metacognitive, compensation, affective, and social
strategies). However, the data revealed that the level of strategy use by fourth
semester students was classified as medium frequency (M=3,38). In measuring the
frequently used strategies, 21 items of the instrument labeled as frequently used
strategies, while 29 items were moderately used strategies