Learning strategies are defined as "specific actions, behaviors, steps, or techniques-such as seeking out conversation partners, or giving oneself encouragement to tackle a difficult language task-used by students to enhance their own learning”(Scarcella and Oxford 1992, p. 63), When the learner consciously chooses strategies that fit his or her learning style and the L2 task at hand, these strategies become a useful toolkit for active, conscious, and purposeful selfregulation oflearning. Learning strategies can be classified into six types: cognitive, metacognitive, memory-related, compensatory, affective, and social. We will discuss each of these later. This paper aims to show that it is important to emphasize that individual students' learning styles and strategies can work together with-or conflict with-a given instructional methodology. If there is harmony between (a) the student and (b) the instructional methodology and materials, then the student is likely to perform well, feel confident, and experience low anxiety. If clashes occur between (a) and (b), the student often performs poorly, lacks confidence, and experiences significant anxiety. Sometimes such clashes lead to serious breakdowns in teacher-student interaction. These conflicts may also lead to the dispirited student's outright rejection of the teaching methodology, the teacher, or the subject matter