This research aimed to describe what learning strategies used by english literature departement students of adab and humanities faculty at state islamic university of alauddin makassar. the object of this research was the sixth semester students as much as ninety students who were chosen randomly. the participants were exammined through questionnaire using o'malley and and chamot (1990) theory …
It was found that from three kinds of learning strategies; 1. Metacognitive learning strategies, 2. Cognitive learning strategies, 3. Socioaffective learning strategies which were proposed by O'Malley et al, the highest learning strategies used by the students who have cumlaude 3.76-4.00 GPA was socioaffective learning strategies. It was then followed by cognitive and metacognitve respectively.