This research aimed to find out EFL students’ strategies used learning English vocabulary to find out EFL students’ strategies most dominantly used in learning English vocabulary, find out EFL students’ problems faced in learning English vocabulary as the third-semester students of the English Education Study Program IKIP-PGRI Pontianak in the Academic Year 2021/2022. This research used a descriptive qualitative method. The researcher collected used direct communication using a questionnaire and indirect communication using an interview. The tools of data collection were close-ended questionnaires and unstructured interviews. Based on data analysis, research results show that this research found that EFL students use strategies in learning English vocabulary. The first is the discovery dimension strategy, such as learning by guessing from English texts or contexts, using a dictionary to look up vocabulary and vocabulary meanings, reading books and journals, listening to songs, and watching movies. The second strategy is consolidation, such as studying with friends or in study groups, learning by memorizing vocabulary, and learning cognitive and metacognitive. EFL students are more dominant in using discovery dimension strategies in learning vocabulary. EFL students have six difficulties experienced by students in learning vocabulary. These difficulties are spelling, grammar, meaning, length and complexity, pronunciation, range and connotation, and idiom. So, EFL students have many strategies and problem for learning English vocabulary.

Keywords: EFL Students, Learning Strategies, Learning English Vocabulary, and English Vocabulary.