Five factors that affect language learning strategies are: 1) Gender - Females tend to use compensation, affective, and metacognitive strategies more than males. 2) Motivation and attitudes - Motivation comes from instrumental reasons like career goals or integrative reasons like wanting to immerse in the culture. 3) Learning style - Analytic learners prefer strategies like rule-learning while global learners use meaning-finding strategies. 4) Aptitude - Aptitude includes abilities like identifying sounds, understanding word functions, figuring out grammar rules, and memorizing words. 5) Personality - Traits like extroversion, inhibition, anxiety, and self-esteem can