Information Technology Students’ Strategies in Learning Vocabulary in Bahasa Inggris Profesional Course

Abstract

This study investigates the vocabulary learning strategies used by students of the Professional English Class (Bahasa Inggris Professional - BIP) at the Information Technology Faculty of Satya Wacana Christian University. The study aims to answer the research questions “What are the strategies commonly used by BIP in learning vocabulary?” and “What are the levels of use of these strategies?. Fifty eight students from BIP class were selected to be the participants in a survey using questionnaires. The result of this study shows that metacognitive strategy was the most frequently used type of strategies. It was followed respectively by Social strategies, Determination strategies, Memory strategies and the least used type is Cognitive strategies. On the second research question, the result shows that based on Oxford's result profile key,some strategies such as metacognitive and social strategies have fair levels of use from the participants. The rest of the stategies (determination strategies, memory and cognitive strategies) had low users of vocabulary learning strategy.