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The first statement discussed was statement number 24 which stated ‘to understand unfamiliar English words, I ma ke guesses’ represented strategy group of ‘guessing intelligently’, consisted of two strategies; they are ‘using linguistic clues’ and ‘using other clues’. Oxford 1990:90 defined guessing as any knowledge that previously gained by learners of the target language, learners‘ own language, or some other language can provide some linguistic clues to the meaning of what is heard or read. Further, Oxford mentions some specific definition for the first strategy mentioned above; suffixes, prefixes and word order are useful linguistic cluesfor guessing meaning. Oxford 1990:91 also adds that linguistic clues are te bedrock of many correct guesses about the meaning of written passages. In addition, Oxford 1990:92 also defines the second strategy as an additional clues coming purely from knowledge of the language, there are also clues from other sources, they are clues that related to language but go beyond and others come from a variety of other sources which are not related to language. Based on questionnaire result, statement number 24 shows mean score of 3.9773, where 32 respondents or 36.4 of the total 88 respondents claimed this statement as ‘usually true of me’, then 30 other respondents or 34.1 stated ‘always or almost always true of me’, and 20 others or 22.7 stated ‘somewhat true of me’. From these findings, then it could be claimed that most respondents were quite familiar with ‘guessing strategy’ and almost often use it. In line with Oxford‘s definition, learners‘ did not necessarily comprehending all the details, means that they could understand a lot of language in reading or listening comprehension. This was supported by the finding from the interview that two among seven respondents stated that they often used this strategy; three stated