LANGUAGE LEARNING STYLES AND STRATEGIES

LANGUAGE LEARNING STYLES AND STRATEGIES

Styles and strategies give potential to students’ abilities.  There are a great quantities of learning styles that could be the way our students learn. Some of those are visual. In this, the students can acquire knowledge easily. For this style images are something that we can not forget. Other is Auditory, where the student learn trough the interactions with others and representing. And finally, we have the kinesthetic and tactile style. Here the student needs to touch, to feel, to see. The personality factors involves if the students are or not introverted or extraverted, if they prefer theory or facts.

About the strategies, we need to take into account that the strategy has to be planned according to what we are going to do and think about some of our students in particular and do the activities for their correct learning. Teachers and students need to be aware about the aim we have with the use of any strategy. Each activity needs to have an clear objective, clear instruction for its correct development. So it is necessary to have cleared where we want to get and what we want to obtain from the class.

In this reading, we can find a lot of really good points for taking into account when we want to define strategies that we should use in a classroom where we have variety of personalities and learning styles. Using all these descriptions, we can make the students knowledge acquisition more effective and meaningful for them, change the routine of our class and make the students have fun.