Learning strategies are the techniques individual students use to help themselves learn.
All students come to their English lessons with their own learning strategies.
They learn many of these through their other schoolwork, through watching people, and by being told what to do. Learning strategies are very personal - what works for one person may not work for another. Since the strategies students use are influenced by teaching and by others, students may not be using the best strategies for them . Students are unlikely to be aware of what the alternatives might be and may assume that the way they learn and are taught is the only way. Learning about learning is part of the process of education and provides an understanding which is transferable to other subjects, other areas of life and beyond school.