Abstract:
Many students feel difficult in learning English so that makes them very lazy
and they are not interested in English. To be able to understand English easily, students
have to employ the appropriate learning strategy and thinking style. Therefore, this
study focuses on language learning strategies and thinking styles. Both of them are very
helpful for beginner or students.
This study aimed to find out what is the most language learning strategies and
thinking styles that are usually applied by students when they are in learning process
and to find out the relationship between language learning strategies and thinking styles.
This study used quantitative method. The researcher took students of the eleventh
graders of MA Almaarif Singosari. The linguistic major students as the participants
consisting of 47 students from two classes. Questionnaire is the instrument of this study.
To analyze the data, the researcher used SPSS version 20.
The finding of the study indicated that metacognitive strategy is type of strategy
mostly used at mean point 5.97 and executive style is mostly applied by students at
mean point 3.78. There is a correlation between language learning strategies and
thinking styles at significant value .001. It can be summed up that metacognitive is the
dominant strategy and executive is the style the most used by students and also there is
a relationship between language learning strategies and thinking styles.
Knowing types of learning strategy and thinking style gives the benefits for
students. It is addressed to the English teacher to be able to handle the various learning
strategies and thinking styles so that students can use the suitable strategies and styles.