Approaches to language learning based on learning style

When you approach language learning based on learning style, the focus is on the individual learners and the learning preferences that motivate them. The specific techniques and activities to be used are chosen less for theoretical reasons than for motivational reasons.

Here are some of the principles these approaches are based on:

• Learning in your preferred learning style increases motivation and effectiveness.
• Some learners have a higher tolerance for ambiguity than others.
• Some learners take on a different persona when speaking another language.
• Motivation affects the time spent learning a language.
• Learner attitudes affect motivation.

Approaches to language learning based on learning style give approaches for four different typesof learner.

• Fact module: Approaches to language learning based on learning ...
• In overview module: A brief survey of language learning methods
• In modular book: Ways to Approach Language Learning, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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