Anguage Learner

Written materials on strategies of redeeming(prenominal) speech learners are scarcely available in the libraries or bookstores in Indonesia, especially, in the field of position vocabulary command and learning. The teachers and students of English occupy the literature to improve their teaching and learning. Meanwhile, observations and experiences in teaching of English contend that the students use different strategies to understand and learn English. Some students understand the wording best in concrete situations, others in abstract and whatsoever in both.Several students learn it step by step, others in no tenacious system, and some both. Some students prefer a deductive approach, others an inductive one, some others both. Some are productive in small groups, others learn the language best in large groups and some others alone. However, the students can be sorted into unsuccessful (poor) language learners and successful ( full(a)) language learners. The good language le arners essential have their own strategies. What strategies do they use in learning English? This paper will try to answer the question.Theoreticians, such as, Rubin, Stern, Rubin and Thompson, Hosenfeld, and Hyland describe the good language learner strategies, giving some help in tell it. The answers are useful not only to the students of English but withal to the teachers or lecturers of English as well. In addition, the purpose of this paper is to supercharge the English teachers or lecturers to view their teaching not only from their teaching methods but also from their students learning strategies and to help the students realize their strategies of the good language learner in their studies.The results of the comparison may help them choose and agree the good language learner strategies that work for them. They can decide to knock back their ineffective learning strategies with the effective ones. A paper presented in forty-first TEFLIN SEMINAR (an international seminar ) held at IKIP Padang on 9 th 11 th September 1993, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia