| Learning English at young age in Indonesia has been a phenomenon as an educational basic need. As cited by Bouti (2007), it has been started about 17 years ago by the policy of Minister of Education and Culture No.060/U/1993 about enabling English program as a local load for elementary school, which can be taught at the fourth grade. English has been the first foreign language taught in Indonesia and it becomes a mandatory subject at any levels in any schools. Nowadays, both in private and state schools, English is taught at the first grade. The establishment of English education gives wider opportunities for English educational practitioners in Indonesia to thoroughly investigate aspects influencing English learning success. Asari (2007) assumed that one of possible factors influencing English learning success is related to how and why learners learn. Wenden (1991) found out that how and why learners learn become as important as what they learn. It means the process of the learning is as important as the content of the learning. In the language learning process, learners are expected to be autonomous. An autonomous learner is “one who has acquired the strategies and knowledge to take some (if not yet all) responsibility for her language learning and is willing and self-confident enough to do so” (Wenden, 1991, p. 163). |