A Comparative Study of English Learning Strategies of College Students of Rural-Urban Enrollments: an Empirical Study in a University of Yunnan Province

129 college students from rural areas and 57 from urban cities have been surveyed to compare their use of English learning strategies.Results indicate that: their overall frequency of strategy use is low;the students from rural areas use the strategies less frequently than those from urban cities except for affective strategy and meta-cognitive strategy;both use complementary strategy in the highest frequency,but the students from cities use memory strategy in the lowest frequency and the students from rural areas use social strategies in the lowest frequency;and there is statistically significant difference in their use of social strategy and cognitive strategy.