This study investigates the effects of gender, parents' education level and learning experience out of school on English learning strategy use. The subjects are 82 sixth grade elementary school students in Tao-Yuan county. The instrument is an English learning questionnaire modified from Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Language Learning. According to the results, the elementary school students do use learning strategies to assist their English learning. Their frequencies of using learning strategy are much higher than those of 2-year junior college students. Females use learning strategies significantly more often than males do. Also, female students adopt affective and social strategies more frequently. The higher the parents' education level is, the higher the frequency of overall strategy use is. The increase in learning experience out of school helps students use learning strategy. The first two often used learning strategies are ”I pay attention when someone is speaking English.” and ”I practice English pronunciation.”