Prioritizing literacy can be a useful strategy for English learners. So that, mastering literacy can be important to improve the students’ achievement in their educational programmes. This research was descriptive qualitative research that aimed to identify the students’ literacy priority among reading, writing, listening, and speaking and explain the contribution of the students’ priority on the development of their knowledge. The participants of this research were twelve students of the English Education Department of UIN Walisongo Semarang. The instruments used in this research were questionnaire guidelines and interview guidelines. The data were analyzed descriptively through data condensation, data display, and conclusion. The literacy in this research includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking as the language literacy. The results of this research are explained as follow: 1) The order of literacy priority is reading and followed by speaking, listening, and writing, the researcher also found that some students put two of English language skills as their first skill that must be concentrated; and 2) The contribution of the literacy priority on the development of their knowledge is by prioritizing literacy by reading and listening, the development of knowledge will be obtained and mastery the skills of students’ literacy priorities will build their knowledge and understanding.