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Title:
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The Relationship between EFL Learning Strategies, Degree of Extroversion, and Oral Communication Proficiency
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Author:
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Patrisius Djiwandono
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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State University of Malang
, Department of English Education
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Degree Date:
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1998
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Applied Linguistics
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Subject Language(s):
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English
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Director(s):
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Eugenius Sadtono
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Abstract:
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This study is aimed at attaining three main purposes, namely (1) describing the profile of learning strategies of Indonesian learners when they were learning English for oral communication skill in an ESP-based context, (2) determining the difference between intermediate and beginning learners in both fluency and accuracy activities, and (3) determining the relationship between dimensions of strategy use, extroversion degree, and the oral communication proficiency in English as a foreign language.
The study was carried out in a population of 65 secretarial students who were taking a 48-hour conversation class at Widya Karya University. A simple random sampling was done to select 50 learners out of the entire population. All the 50 learners were taken as the sample for the analyses of relationship between the predictor variables and the criterion variable. To analyze the difference in strategies and learning styles, they were divided into two groups based on a general English proficiency test, namely Intermediate and Beginning groups, with the former consisting of 11 learners and the latter 16 learners.
The data collection phase involved a number of instruments, namely learning style questionnaires, learning strategy questionnaires, extroversion questionnaires, learner diaries, and an interview session. The diaries were used to collect the learners' daily strategies when they were attending to accuracy activities and preparing for fluency activities in the conversation class. The data from learning strategy questionnaires and the interview were used to complement the diary-based data. Finally, a speaking test at the end of the semester was administered to gain the data of the learners' oral communication proficiency in English.
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