Learning styles and strategies

It refers to the natural way of learning, the student's favorite or preferred way of learning.

Type 1: Cognitive

Field depedant

Field independant

Analytic

Global

Reflective

Impulsive

Type 2: Sensory

Perceptual

Visual

Auditory

Tactile

Kinesthetic

Environmental

Physical

Sociological

Type 3: Personality

Tolerance of ambiguity

Right and left hemisphere dominance

It refers to the mental and communicative procedures that students use to learn and use language.

Cognitive

Classifying

Predicting

Inducting

Taking notes

Concept mapping

Inferencing

Discriminating

Diagramming

Interpersonal

Cooperating

Role-playing

Linguistic

Conversational patterns

Practicing

Using context

Summarizing

Selective listening

Skimming

Affective

Personalizing

Self-evaluating

Reflective

Creative

Brainstorming

Social & affective

To raise awareness of how feelings of self and others can influence learning.

Awareness-raising

To raise awareness of what language learning meas.

Meta-cognitive

To develop reflective abilities:

Planning

Monitoring

Evaluating Language learning

Direct or cognitive

To develop the ability to deal with linguistic information in an effective way.

For Younger Learners

Sensitize students towards learning

Stimulate what has been learned

Create a record of achievements

For Older Learners

Metacognitive

Reflective thinking

Self-evaluation