Some of them include: knowing students' learning styles and thinking of them as individuals with different needs. This is something that teachers may take for granted, thinking that it is not necessary to identify each student's learning style or preferences. Additionally, it is important to teach students how and when to use these strategies and to help them orchestrate their use in relation to their own learning preferences. In other words, this effectiveness depends on how well language learners can select and/or combine the use of strategies based on a particular task and other variables, such as their learning styles, maturity and previous experiences . Finally, educators should consider variables that may influence strategy use and that are controlled by teachers, such as language