Razak, N. Z., Ismail, F., Aziz, A. A., & Babikkoi, M. A. (2012).

Assessing the Use of English

Language Learning Strategies among Secondary School Students in Malaysia. Procedia -
Social and Behavioral Sciences, 66, 240-246. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.11.266

This article aims to investigate the learning strategies that students employ in learning
English as the second language. According to Oxford and Crookall [2] learning strategies are
steps taken by language students to facilitate the whole process of acquisition, storage, retrieval,
or using linguistic information. Learning strategies is necessary to employ in acquiring the
knowledge. To this end, this study was conducted in an attempt to find out’ 1) The types of
learning strategies employed and the frequency of usage by ESL learners at the level of
secondary school in Johor, Malaysia; 2) Whether male and female students vary in employing
learning strategies to master the English language. The findings also were to provide answers as
to why some second language learners are more successful in their learning task than others and
why some learners are less successful in attaining competence in the target languages.

Descriptive statistics were to analysis of the questionnaire. To gather the data the
researcher employ Oxford [4] Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). The
questionnaires were distributed to secondary school students in Johor state during their regular
class periods. Divided into two sections; 1) respondent’s demographic background and 2)
consisted of 48 statements and six learning strategies were employed by students.

Between the two genres showed that female students use strategies more often and better
that male in learning English language. In the findings showed that affective strategies got the
highest level and compensation strategy as the least value. As the previous study research also
showed that female students were more motivated than male students for learning English
(Gokhan Ozturk, 2012).