The Importance of Introducing English Language Learning Strategies to University Students

This article aims at describing the importance of introducing various English language learning strategies to university students. Although in Indonesia, English has been studied from the basic education level, but such learning assessed less successful. It can be seen from the average students’ English skills which is still very minimal. One factor that affects the less successful of English learning was the lack of students’ knowledge about the English learning strategies. The result of the literature review showed that by introducing various English learning strategies to university students there are plenty of benefits both for the university students and lecturers. One of the benefits is it can help the university students to do some efforts in achieving the better learning target. Besides, the lecturers are also able to use the more effective learning method that can be applied in the class. Keywords: the importance of the introduction, learning strategies, English.