At Antasari Islamic State University, the excellent program of scholar is
one program that has a policy for students to write their thesis in English apart from
English education department. In the other hand their English learning is not
intensive as English department. Based on the phenomenon, it is necessary to
investigate the topic of the research to find out the English learning strategies and
proficiency levels of PKU’s students.
The researcher used Descriptive Quantitative that the data was analyzed in
numbers and percentages then presented descriptively. This study used quick test
and questionnaire to 10 students of PKU’s students who is thesis writing in English.
The results showed that the English learning strategies used by PKU
students were memory, cognitive, sensitive, affective, metacognitive, and social
strategies with use at the medium level, meaning they sometimes used these
learning strategies when learning English and mostly used is a learning strategy
social strategy. As for the ability level of PKU students is at the beginner and
intermediate levels based on CEFR standards.