Using efficient learning strategies is just as important as motivation and exposure when learning a foreign language. These methods—which include self-testing, mind mapping, repetition, and spaced practice—help students assimilate, remember, and use language knowledge more effectively. This essay explores the importance of using learning strategies when studying a foreign language. The study shows through a review of the literature, student surveys, and classroom observations that students who actively employ particular strategies make more improvement in grammatical comprehension, communicative fluency, and vocabulary acquisition. The study comes to the conclusion that integrating learning strategies into language instruction promotes self-reliance, retention, and long-term achievement.

learning techniques, language acquisition, strategy-based learning, student success, self-regulation, foreign language education

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