Introvert Students’ Strategies in Learning English as a Foreign Language

This present study aimed to investigate the language learning strategies and the impact of the strategy used by introvert students in learning EFL. This study was conducted at UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh, in which the population in this study was fourth-year students in the academic year 2016. Explanatory sequential mixed methods research design was employed in this study in which the number of participants was selected into two-phase. In the first phase, the number of participants who participated was 30 introvert students, but only five were interviewed in the second phase. In gaining the data, a strategy inventory for language learning (SILL) questionnaire with 50 items of questions under the likert-scale was used and have been analyzed manually by using specific formulas and then an in-depth interview have been conducted. The study results revealed that the participants mostly use cognitive strategy (81.7%) and meta-cognitive strategy (60.3%) in their learning process. Whereas the impacts of using the language strategies also revealed, those are: feel more comfortable in learning the language, increase competency in language skills, and improve confidence to use the language.