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ENGLISH LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR TOURISM MANAGEMENT STUDENTS WITH MULTI CULTURAL BACKGROUND AT BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TOURISM
Learning strategies are used to help students understand any information and solve any
language learning problems. A learning strategy is a learner’s approach to learning and
using information. The learning strategies include strategies for learning how to paraphrase
critical or important or main information, picture information to promote understanding and
remembering, ask questions and make predictions about text information and identify
unknown words in the text. They also help students study information for developing
memories or mnemonics and other devices to aid memorization of facts as well as strategies
for learning new vocabulary, write sentences and paragraphs, monitor their work for errors
and confidently approach. For example : reading strategies that help students figure out
what a word is, comprehend what they are reading , acquire vocabulary and understand the
structure of text. All of these strategies are essential for a well – integrated, balanced
reading program. In other words, an order or array of strategies in other areas is necessary
for students success. In this observation, the theory of learning strategies in the second
language literature is adapted from Wenden and Rubin (1987 : 72) that can be classified
into three strategies. Firstly, meta cognitive strategies are thinking about learning process,
planning for learning, monitoring of comprehension and self evaluation after learners have
completed their activities. While cognitive strategies related to individual learning tasks. The
last type of strategy is social or affective strategies which concern with influence of social
learning and process on learning. The writer found out that students who do not know or use
good learning strategies often learn passively and ultimately fail in school. A teacher has an
important role in learner’s learning strategy, therefore a teacher should be able to give
instruction which focuses on making the students more active learners by teaching them how
to learn and use what they have learned to overcome problems and successful . Such
problems can occur in second language classes, in which students are learning a new
language in an environment where that language is widely used for everyday communicatio