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The purpose of the study is to compare and analyze the use of learning strategies by middle school English learners in Korean and Chinese EFL contexts. The study pays special attention to whether some variables such as sex, grade and extra-curricular activity affect learning strategies used by Korean and Chinese middle school students. For the study, 185 Korean students and 194 Chinese students were asked to fill out a questionnaire which is based on Oxford’s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). The results show that they used compensation and memory strategies more than affective and social strategies. and the learners who have extra-curricular activity about English use learning strategies more often than learners who do not. Female learners use learning strategies more often than male learners.