The aims of this research were to describe what learning strategies used by
the second grade students of SMA N 5 Purwokerto and to find out the
dominant learning strategy used by the students in comprehending English
text.
The kind of this research was survey research. The population of the
research was the second grade students of SMA N 5 Purwokerto in the
academic year 2012/2013 who were consisted of 316 students. The sample of
this research was 120 students or 40% of the population amount. The
sampling technique that used was random sampling. Questionnaire was used
to collect the data of this research.
The result of this research showed that 77.25% of learning strategy which
used by the students in reading comprehension of English text was social
strategy. The two more learning strategies that were often used by the
students were affective strategy (75.70%) and compensatory strategy
(67.00%). The three more learning strategies; namely: cognitive strategy
(60.83), metacognitive (60.66%), and memory strategy (58.37%) were
seldom used by the students to help them comprehend English text.