| Learning
styles |
Different
students learn in different ways.
Examples:
- Some students prefer to see new structures in writing
before they try to say it – they are visual learners.
- Some students are confused by new written language. They
prefer to speak the new language first – they are oral
learners.
- Some students need to copy the new language in their
notebooks before they try to produce it.
- Students can also differ in the time they need between
new language input and output.
Some students like to have a silent
period when they can listen to the language without
producing it.
- Other students need to speak new language immediately.
Learning styles affect all the processes of learning a
language: how much is remembered; how much recycling is
needed; how quickly material is learned and so on.
The idea of learning styles is a feature of key areas of ELT
such as Multiple Intelligences,
Learner Training and
Constructivism.
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