Vocabulary Learning Strategies Frequently Used by the Tenth Grade Students of Senior High School in SMA 3 Salatiga

English vocabulary plays a very important role in English learning and teaching. In order to help students gain vocabulary easier we need to know the strategies they use in learning vocabulary. This paper investigated the use of strategies by senior high school in their vocabulary learning. The participants of this study were 101 tenth grade students from SMA N 3 Salatiga. The data was analyze based on Schmitt?s vocabulary learning strategies classification, which are cognitive strategies, metacognitive strategies, social strategies, determination strategies, and memory strategies. In order to investigate the strategies frequently used by the students, the researcher used a questionnaire from Oxford?s (1989) Strategy Inventory Language Learning (SILL) the result for the descriptive statistics of the study showed that Metacognitive strategies were used more frequently by the students and Social strategies were least frequently used