Abstract name : rena fitria student no. : 1006102050016 study program : english education title : analyzing the learning strategies used by senior high school students in improving speaking skill (a qualitative study in sman 1 ingin jaya) keywords: language learning strategies, speaking, high achieving learners, low achieving learners. this title was chosen since there were many senior high school students who still face difficulties in finding the appropriate strategies to be used in improving speaking. this study was intended to find out the types of learning strategies used by the students as well as the different strategies used by the high and the low achieving learners of the class. therefore, it only discusses about the learning strategies used by the students to improve speaking skill. descriptive qualitative was used in this study and the subjects were all of students of third year in class xii a i.