Focus on the learner
Focus on the Learner
Learner Characteristics
Learner characteristics are difference between learners which influence their attitude to learning a language and how they learn it. These differences influence how they respond to different teaching styles and approaches in the classroom and how successful they are at learning a language. The differences include the learner’s motivation, personality, language level, learning style, learning strategies, age and past language learning experience.
Learning style: they are the ways in which a learner naturally prefers to take in, process and remember information and skills. Our learning style influences how we like to learn and how we learn best. Some of commonly mentioned learning styles are:
Visual
The learner learns best through seeing
Auditory
The learner learns best through hearing
Kinaesthetic
The learners learns best through using the body
Group
The learner learns best through working with others
Individual
The learner learns best through working alone
Reflective
The learner learns best when given time to consider
Choices
Impulsive
The learner learns best when able to respond immediately
Learning Strategies: they are the ways chosen and used by learners to learn language.
Repeating new words in your head until you remember them
Experimenting/taking risks by using just learnt language in your conversation
Guessing the meaning of unknown words
Asking the teacher or others to say what they think about your use of language
Deciding to use the foreign language as much as possible by talking to tourists
Recording yourself, then judging and correcting your pronunciation
Asking a speaker to repeat what they have said
Deciding what area of vocabulary you need to learn and then learning it
Thinking about how to remember all the new words you meet in each lesson and then deciding to write each new one on a separate card
Paraphrasing (using other language to say what you want to say)
Maturity: it involves becoming grown
Learner Characteristics
Learner characteristics are difference between learners which influence their attitude to learning a language and how they learn it. These differences influence how they respond to different teaching styles and approaches in the classroom and how successful they are at learning a language. The differences include the learner’s motivation, personality, language level, learning style, learning strategies, age and past language learning experience.
Learning style: they are the ways in which a learner naturally prefers to take in, process and remember information and skills. Our learning style influences how we like to learn and how we learn best. Some of commonly mentioned learning styles are:
Visual
The learner learns best through seeing
Auditory
The learner learns best through hearing
Kinaesthetic
The learners learns best through using the body
Group
The learner learns best through working with others
Individual
The learner learns best through working alone
Reflective
The learner learns best when given time to consider
Choices
Impulsive
The learner learns best when able to respond immediately
Learning Strategies: they are the ways chosen and used by learners to learn language.
Repeating new words in your head until you remember them
Experimenting/taking risks by using just learnt language in your conversation
Guessing the meaning of unknown words
Asking the teacher or others to say what they think about your use of language
Deciding to use the foreign language as much as possible by talking to tourists
Recording yourself, then judging and correcting your pronunciation
Asking a speaker to repeat what they have said
Deciding what area of vocabulary you need to learn and then learning it
Thinking about how to remember all the new words you meet in each lesson and then deciding to write each new one on a separate card
Paraphrasing (using other language to say what you want to say)
Maturity: it involves becoming grown