Abstract:
The study investigated EFL students’ awareness of strategy use in promoting
autonomy at the English Department, Blida 2 University during the academic year
2014-2015. It was a case study which attempted to explore the extent to which new
registered students were aware of strategy use and make use of it . Data have been
collected through triangulation : two part questionnaires have been administered to
70 students and classroom observation in order to reveal whether they are aware or
not of strateg use . In addition to a semi-structured interview conducted with 10
informants for the sake of uncovering their awareness or not of their learning
problems and the strategies used to solve them. Both quantitative and qualitative data
analysis have led to conclude that learners in this sample were aware of their learning
difficulties but showed a lack in person ,task and strategic knowledge . Also, all
participants (70 ) used some metacognitive strategies out of metacognitive knowledge .
therefore ,they seemed to be not aware of strategy use.
