This research focuses in three points; they are types of lerning strategies
applied by Muhammadiyah students to achieve high score of TOEIC, Dominant
learning strategies, and the reason of why the students applied such learning
strategies. Therefore, the objective of this research are (1) to find out the types of
learning strategies applied by Muhammadiyah University students to achieve
high score of TOEIC, (2) the dominant learning strategies, and the last is their
reason to use there to use those strategies. This research is a descriptive qualitative
research with case study. The sampling technique used in this research is a total
sampling techniques which analyze the types of learning strategies used by three
students of Economy Faculty of Muhammadiyah University. This research
applied two kinds of method of data collections: content analysis and interview by
using open ended interview and questionnaire as the instrument of data analysis.
The data were collected from the three students of Economy Faculty. The data
were collected from the interview result and questionnaire. The data were
analyzed based on O’Malley taxonomy of learning strategy.
The findings of the research shows that the three respondents have applied
multiple strategies associated with O’Malley taxonomy of learning strategy. They
are meta-cognitive, cognitive, and socio-affective. They use each type of strategy
to increase their capability of learning L2 language (English). There were no
significant dominant learning strategy used by them, but they have some
similarity and differences of applying some strategy for listening comprehension
part of TOEIC test. The three strategy of O’Malley called as meta-cognitive,
cognitive, and socio-affective and their descriptions have power in influencing the
quality of the respondent’s result test. The different strategy chosen by the
respondent had given different score for their TOEIC test. It proves that the type
of strategy of meta-cognitive, cognitive, and socio-affective has significant impact
in the quality of learning L2.