The researchers have taught English in institute of technology for many years
and find most of their students’ English ability is low. However, those students will
become major manpower of the country in the future. In order to increase global
competition, possessing enough English ability is important. Therefore, it is worth
considering how to promote college students’ English ability. The researchers find
that most of their students didn’t have any successful English learning experience or
they were English-phobia when they were in junior high school. Those students lost
confidence in learning English, so they are afraid of learning English. The
researchers believe previous English learning failure has a great effect on the
following learning. Only when those students experience learning achievement, they
will get their confidence again and their learning motivation will be arouse. The
researchers think employing English learning strategy will help students access
English much more easily. The researchers apply English learning strategy
questionnaire to understand students’ English learning preference. After analysis of
the data collected by questionnaire, the results could be taken as reference of English
teaching