Learning autonomy is regarded as the goal of today’s language
education
because
English language learning
is a life
-long learning process in which
students should have the ability to continue learning after leaving school.
The
present study was aimed to find out autonomous English learning activities
performed by EFL students and the extent of the performance
. A total of 155
state
senior high schools students in Banyumas in the academic year of 2015/2016
participate in the study
. A questionnaire was distribute to the students to find out
their performance of autonomous language learning activities. To get deep
er
information, a semi
-structured interview was conducted to 10 representative
students. The
result
revealed autonomous language learning activities perfo
rmed
by the students
. These activities were
related with
awareness of language learning
process,
self
-effort in
learning
English
, broader
autonomous activities b
eyond the
class, self
-reflection on learning process
, the
use of reference materials, self
-
motivation
in learning English
and
the
use of computer technology in learning
English
. Lastly,
the extent
of the performance was found unsatisfactory. The
result indicated that students
still
rarely performed
those
autonomous language
learning
activities
.