There are six English learning strategies for senior high school students, namely, compensation strategy, social strategy, cognitive strategy, metacognitive strategy, emotional strategy and memory str

There are six English learning strategies for senior high school students, namely, compensation strategy, social strategy, cognitive strategy, metacognitive strategy, emotional strategy and memory strategy. Compensation strategy plays an important role in college oral English teaching, because it is an important part of English learning strategy and English communicative competence. Compensation strategy refers to various strategies (such as guessing, circuitous, etc. ) is adopted by learners in order to gain more communication opportunities, keep communication and improve communication effect. The concept of compensation strategy was put forward by Oxford (1990) [2]. Oxford pointed out that compensation strategy can make learners better use the new language for input or output under the condition of insufficient language knowledge. The purpose of compensation strategy is to make up for some skills, such as grammar, especially vocabulary. Oxford summed up ten compensation strategies and divided them into two categories: guessing wisely in listening and reading and overcoming limitations in speaking and writing.