Teachers’ awareness of students’ language learning preferences can lead teachers to more realistic and useful teaching strategies which in turn will facilitate and enrich the learning process. Therefore, learners’ preferences are to be identified and their skills and assumptions must be given due attention. Learners should be given the opportunity to express their learning preferences especially in reference to definition of objectives and awareness of strategies in learning.
To give our students such opportunity, 320 freshmen students at Shahed University were asked to express their learning preferences by filling out a 13-item questionnaire. As a further step, 21 teachers who taught English to the same students were asked to show their awareness of the students learning preferences by filling out the same questionnaire with minor changes. Collected data revealed significant results signifying the need for a closer cooperation between students and teachers as to how learning activities should be arranged and implemented in the classroom.