Investigating efl learners' language learning strategy use and their language achievement during online education

The aim of the current mixed-method approach-based study was to investigate what language learning strategies that EFL learners employ at the School of Foreign Languages considering variables like gender and English learning span, and reveal the relationship between EFL learners' LLS use and their EFL achievement during online education in Covid-19 pandemic 2020-2021 term. Both qualitative and quantitative research design were used for the study. 139 EFL learners were chosen as respondents through simple random sampling within 23 classrooms. The results of the study revealed that EFL learners' overall LLS use level was medium. In accordance with results there was a statistically significant difference between two groups, male and female, in favor of female learners, which indicated that gender is a determinative factor in the use of overall LLS. No statistically significant difference was calculated between the two groups, the ones whose English learning span was at least 7 years and the ones whose English learning span was less than 7 years, which indicated that EFL learners' English learning span is not a determinative factor in the use of LLS for this study. It was discovered that there was a positive and statistically significant correlation between EFL learners' overall LLS use and their EFL achievement. When learners' LLS use level increases, their EFL achievement increases as well.