UNIT 13

 UNIT 13                      

Learning Characteristics 

Motivation, learning style, learning strategies and maturity are factors that influence how the learners perceive the process of learning a second language. All of them are important but personally I consider two of them the most important ones: Learning styles and learning strategies.

Learning styles are personal skills that a learner have through the process of learning, its natural. These characteristics should be consider on planning the class.

Visual: watching and looking.

Auditory: listening and hearing

Kinesthetic: moving or touching

Group: working with others

Individual: working alone:

Reflective give time to consider choices

Impulsive:  respond immediately

Analytic: analyze things

Autonomous: decide what and how to learn.   

Learning strategies are ways that help learners to process the new language. Repeating the new words or create a note about them help to memorize them, asking the teacher for feedback could clarify about something and practicing, I would create on my schedule were students can come and ask for feedback. Use the language as much as possible the language like talking with tourist. These ideas are consider for me an extra support outside the classroom that help learners to reinforce, remember and use the new language.

If you want visit this web sites for extra information about learning characteristics:

The University of Knansas(2014), center for reseach on learning, learning stratgies: Retreived from: 

http://www.ku-crl.org/sim/strategies.shtml