Each student in your classroom will have cognitive, sensory, and personality type learning styles. In order to use the information presented in Figure l most effectively, you must gain a working knowledge of the general categories of learning styles so you can (1) recognize different styles in yourself and your learners, and (2) create lesson plans and classroom activities that address these varied styles There are many different ways to categorize learning strategies (Oxford, 1990). Given the emphasis in the past decade on helping learners develop critical thinking skills and cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP) (Cummins, 1996), I have chosen to review some general learning strategies. In the cognitive academic language leaning approach (CALLA), Chamot and O'Malley (1994) identified some general learning strategies that con- tribute to second language student success in academic and classroom environments. While the focus in the CALLA model is on children learning a second language, the general learning strategies are important for all language room environments. General learning strategies fall learners in formal into three areas-metacognitive (ie, strategies to help students think about their own learning, cognitive, and socio-affective.