Vocabulary learning strategies are any set of activities, strategies,
procedures, notions that language learners use to assist in the knowledge, storing,
recovery and usage of vocabulary. Using strategy will make the students more
effective to understand. Regarding this issue, the present research was aimed to
explore types, the most and the least frequently used English vocabulary learning
strategies by 8th grade students junior high school at SMP Negeri 2 Purwokerto.
The researcher used descriptive method using survey technique. 67 eight grade
students participated in this research. Questionnaire was administered to the
learners to find out the types of vocabulary learning strategies that they used. The
result of this research revealed that (1) types of vocabulary learning strategies
were cognitive (M=2.7), metacognitive (M=3.6), memory (M=3.1), social (3.4),
and determination (M=3.4). Furthemore, (2) the most frequently strategies that
used by the students were metacognitive, and the least were cognitive strategies.
These results imply several suggestion: (1) in learning new vocabulary, the
teacher should use interesting ways, (2) teacher should provide the learners with
appropriate media.