eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2015-11-24 3 12 1548 1553 10.12691/education-3-12-10 EDUCATION201531210 article Gatut Susanto gatutus@yahoo.com 1 Universitas Negeri Malang (State University of Malang), Malang, Indonesia This research investigated the metacognitive strategy used by American students in learning Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia). The research objective was to identify certain learning behaviors such as the use of metacognitive strategy. The subjects were students of the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program at the beginning level who were learning Bahasa Indonesia intensively for 8 weeks in the summer period in the BIPA Program at the Faculty the Letters, State University of Malang, Indonesia. Data were collected through (1) direct observation of the learning activities and (2) student interviews. The results showed that CLS students, as a representative sample of American students at the beginning level, demonstrate seven general types of learning behaviors when they learn Bahasa Indonesia. These are (1) anticipating; (2) planning; (3) controlling; (4) monitoring; (5) self-evaluating; (6) self-managing; and (7) self-reflecting. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/3/12/10/education-3-12-10.pdf metacognitive strategy american students learning indonesian