BEING SUCCESFUL LANGUAGE LEARNER: SOME USEFUL TIPS LEARNING STRATEGIES TO APPLY FOR THE STUDENTS

Deni Asrida

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Learning strategies are the conscious thoughts and actions that learners take in order to achieve a learning goal. Learning a language especially English is quite chalenging for the students since they have to master many skills in English: speaking, reading, listening and writing. This is certainly not easy for the students. This paper presents some strategies that the students can do in order to be more succesful in learning English as a foreign language.


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