Have a Look at Language Learning Strategies: A Good Step for Successful English as Foreign Language Learning

Language learning strategies refers to the students’ ways in learning to help them master the foreign
language they are learning in. They may be old theme in educational study, but still considered as one of
working tools to fill in the gap between what students know and what students need to know. The uses of
language learning strategies are necessary to be recognized by teachers for EFL learning development.
This present article aims to explore the matter of language learning strategies, what makes them
important, and how to promote them in learning. Learning strategies become one of influential aspects of
successful learning along side with the teaching methods or techniques used by teachers since it is used
as students’ secret weapon to assist them in learning. Therefore, focusing on students’ learning strategies
is necessary since it can create autonomous learning atmosphere, can stimulate students to be proficient
language users, and can stimulate teacher to develop better the language tasks or activities. Therefore,
teachers are required to promote the use of learning strategies by identifying and analyzing the strategies
used by students in their learning process, and then integrating the use of strategies in teaching learning
process.
Keywords: strategies, language learning strategies, foreign language learning