THE DESCRIPTION OF STUDENTS’ AUTONOMOUS ENGLISH LEARNING ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE OF THE CLASS AT THE THIRD GRADE OF SMA N 2 BUKITTINGGI ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018
ABSTRACT Nenci Felina: 2313.020, “The Description of Students Autonomous English Learning Activities Outside of the Class at the Third Grade of SMA N 2 Bukittinggi Academic Year 2017/2018”. A Thesis, State Islamic Institute Bukittinggi (IAIN). This research was done because the researcher found the several problems faced by students in learning English in school. The problems that the researcher found were in preliminary interview the researcher found that some students still low self-confidence in using English, some students were lack of vocabulary, some students did not have enough time to use English inside of the classroom . Due to this phenomenon, the researcher wants to know about Autonomous Learning Activities by students at the third grade of SMA N 2 Bukiittinggi in academic year 2017/2018. The design of this research was descriptive qualitative. The respondents of the research was at the third grade of SMA N 2 Bukittinggi academic year 2017/2018 The researcher used snowball sampling by taking 4 class which took interest class, while technique of data collocation were interview and observation outside of the classroom. The finding reveals that the most activity that the most students did were: watching movie, surfing the internet, using the internet and technology, practicing conversation with friends, reading newspaper, magazine and book, studying in groups, talking to foreigners, writing letters to pen pals, attending a self-study center, keeping a journal, listening to the radio. Keyword: Learning English, Autonomous English Learning Activities