Abstrak
This research was conducted due to the problems that occurred among the second grade junior high school students of MTsM Sungai Batang in learning English. Researcher found the problems among the students. The first problem was some of students had assumption and believe that English is the difficult subject to master. Next, some of students still kept silent in the learning English eventhough they did not understand about the material that teacher taught. The third problem was some students were busy with themselves and did not cooperate with the others eventhough the teacher had classified them into the group. The fourth problem was some of students had used the strategies, but they were not aware of using these strategies. Next, the teacher did not know and still difficult to identification category of students in using social strategy. In the classroom, the teacher had taught and guidance students to use the strategies. The researcher found that the effect of the usage of the strategy was still vary among students. From the phenomena above, researcher wanted to find the social strategies used by students in learning English at the Second Grade Junior High School Students of MTsM Sungai Batang Academic Year 2017/2018. The design of this research was descriptive quantitative research. The data was gotten through questionnaire which constist of fourty items. The sample of this research were 42 students from total population were 42 students and the researcher used total sampling technique. Researcher served the data into table and chart of the social strategies that was used by student. The technique of data analysis was through the formula to found mean and percentage. The finding showed that students in learning English used kinds of social strategies. The highest preferable strategy was Cooperating with Others (72%) and continued by Asking Questions (71%). The lowest choosen strategy was Empathizing with Others (67%). The students who were applied social strategy could be divided into four main category which were good, enough, low and very low. Each of the category had describe percentage to determine categorization. From the calculation, no one from the student had good category from 42 sample. Enough category was filled by 34 students. There were only 8 students got the low user of the social strategy. Thus, the use of the social strategy among students in learning English was mostly enough