Review of literature

The book Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisition talks about the topic we putting across, for example it says that students apply learning strategies during this process and that they can be described and classify.
Some studies have been based in the learning strategies, and the uses it has in different students.
In this book we can find a study about the learning strategies use by beginnig and intermediate ESL students. this study tried to identify


Also it says that students create practice opportunities and naturalistic practice in for the reading skill as well for the listening skill. Moreover, it says that the main strategies that are more used frequetly for reading include double-check monitoring, comprenhension monitoring, problem identification, substitution, resourcing, interpretetion, reading the passage aloud in the second language acquisition to help comprenhension, etc.

It also talks about gender differences in strategy use but it doesn't put across any clear conclusion about this given that the number of male and female students that were the objects of this study were small; however within this group was

an indication of more careful, planned approach on the strategies of advance organizations and direct attention more frequently than boys, while in writing, oral work and grammar tasks, planning, monitoring, evaluating and pattern/rule application were more common among girls than boys...Males by contrast were more likely than girls to use sound to determine the appropriteness of their use of language...On a more positive note, however, females would appear to engage in a greater degree of cooperation which may be beneficial to oral proficiency...Here, girls were much more likely to employ strategies of creating practice opportunuties and naturalistic practice... In all of the skill areas considered, both males and females used a mixture of strategies that can be viewed as either positive or negative.

(Graham, 1997)

There are some studies that you can find in some books and also you can find the definition, strategies. You can find some information about learning strategies focused on learning grammar and vocabulary, as well as in other areas.
Grammar Learning Through Strategy Training.
Learner Strategy Use and Performance on Language Tests