Strategies Used by Ambonese Students in Learning EAP

Abstract

English is not a particularly popular subject for Ambonese students, even since in the high school level, thus the interest of learning and achieving good grades in English are considerably inadequate so far. Although these Ambonese students lacked interest in learning English, there were still some students who passed the EAP course with good grades. This study shows strategies used by Ambonese students in learning EAP. The aim of the study is to find out what strategies they used in order to successfully pass the course. In this study, the participants were 17 students from a group of 2018 cohort of Ambonese students in Nursing Sciences program who had passed EAP class in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing (FKIK), UKSW. They were asked to answer questions from the questionnaires and interviews which indicated the strategies they used in learning EAP. The results revealed that all students tended to use all strategies (Cognitive Strategies, Affective Strategies, and Metacognitive). However, the most frequently used strategies were Metacognitive Strategies. This study is hopefully beneficial for student teachers to help their students in learning English for Academic Purposes with the hope that those students will be successful using these learning strategies.