ISSN: 2782-893X
eISSN: 2799-0664
ISSN: 2782- 893X
——This study focused on language learning strategies and English proficiency learning through the lens of language-learning strategies, and how strategies-based instruction is implemented within the public elementary schools, specifically grade 4 of the Division of Davao City. The intent of this study was to determine the extent to which language-learning strategies are taught to language learners in public elementary schools, the specific strategies that languagelearners use, and whether improvements to strategies-based instruction are needed. The result revealed that all strategies of language learning were effective and that teachers continue using these strategies to learn language. However, despite the strategies of language learning continually used by teachers, learners still have a hard time in writing English. Learners have difficulty and find writing in English hard to accomplish. The study found that, generally, language-learning strategies are not explicitly taught but implicitly learned. The study also found that learners used the strategies, leaving few of the strategies little used or unused altogether. Finally, the study recommends that language-learning strategies be taught explicitly, in awareness-raising exercises, so that students learn not only to identify the specific strategies available for use, but also how to apply them using the material being learned. Keywords — Language learning strategy, English proficiency, correlation, writing tasks, education of learners