The aim of this research was to find out whether or not there was correlation
between gender differences and learning strategies used by the forth semester
students of English education department at Purwokerto Muhammadiyah
University Academic Year 2013/2014.This research used descriptive method. The
data was collected by using questionnaires as the instruments which consisted of
thirty close-ended questions. The writer determined the sample by using random
sampling. The number of sample was 50 students that consist of 25 male and 25
female learners.The result of analyzing data found that there were a significantly
different percentage of male and female learners in using learning strategies. The
result of statistic calculation showed that there were 48% female learners who
used social strategy. It was different from that by the male learners: only 32% of
them used social strategy. The significant differences also found on the use of
memory strategy that showed only 8% of the male learners used memory strategy,
while 24% of female learners used memory strategy. The last one was affective
strategy that male learners had higher percentage than female learners. The
percentage result indicated 24% male learners used affective strategy; meanwhile
there was 12% female learners used affective strategy.In addition, there was a
correlation between gender differences and learning strategies. It is shown on the
Chi-square statistic. The counted value of chi-square (13.700) was higher than that
of table (11.1).