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Abstract: In general, language learners depict different ability and grasp of learning the language. Due to the fact that individual learns differently, researchers are interested to study how English language learners learn the language successfully. This study is designed to identify the area of language learning strategies that were employed by ten successful English Language Learners of Form Five from a private secondary school in Kuching, Sarawak. The strategies used by these learners help promote and boost the use of strategies among poor language learners. Using a purposive sampling procedure, a group comprising of ten successful language learners of a private school in Kuching, Sarawak participated in the study. The findings indicated that successful language learners are high frequency users of language learning strategies. The findings revealed that metacognitive strategies are among the highest frequently used strategies, followed correspondingly by social, cognitive, compensation, affective and memory strategies found as the least used strategies among successful language learners. The total means of each category showed that metacognitive strategies (Mean=4.466) are among the most frequently used strategies, followed respectively by social (Mean=4.217), cognitive (Mean=4.036), compensation (Mean=3.450), affective (Mean=3.233) and memory strategies (Mean=2.867) found as the least used strategies among successful language learners. Interestingly, the study acknowledged that successful language learners employed more indirect strategies paralleled to direct strategies. The findings have significant implications for research on language learning strategies concerning successful language learners and teacher planning to cater the needs of diverse learners in English Language and improve the field of language teaching.

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