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MITSALINA ADZHANI, NIM 1730104400, entitle: “A PRAGMATICS ANALYSIS OF CRITICISM STRATEGY USED BY EFL LEARNERS AT IAIN BATUSANGKAR”. English Teaching Department, Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty, State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Batusangkar. The problem of this research was students don‟t know criticism strategy, which causes pragmatic failure for students of English Teaching Department at IAIN Batusangkar. This study aims to analyze criticism strategies used by students and the most criticism strategies used by students. The researcher uses the theory of criticism strategy Nguyen (2005). This study uses a quantitative descriptive method with a cross sectional design. The population of this study were the 6th-semester students, there are 66 students. In this study, researchers used a total sampling technique. The instrument used in this research was the Discourse Completion Test (DCT) with 10 scenarios or situations. The results of the instrument validity was 0.73 (medium), the instrument reliability results was 0.61 (Substantial agreement). After that, the researcher distributed the DCT via google form to the sample. The data was analyze in several steps: 1. Classifying the test based on the different situations of criticism, 2. Classifying the strategy of criticism strategies used by the students, 3. Making codes for criticism strategies, and 4. percentage the data. The results show that the student exploited six strategies for direct criticism, namely (1) negative evaluation, (2) disapproval (3) statement of the problem, (4) expression of disagreement ,(5) statement of difficulty and (6) consequences; whereas for indirect criticism, they used seven strategies, i.e. (1) correction, (2) demand for change, (3) request for change, (4) advise for change, (5) suggestion for change, (6) asking/presupposing, and (7) other hints. And the most strategy used by students was indirect criticism appears 517 times with a percentage of 79%.