Learning Styles

Learning styles refers to the consisten way in which a learner engages with this language and the language learning environment.

Below is a short description of some learning styles based in research by Brown in 1994.

Field Dependent learners
Field dependent learners prefer to view things wholistically, that is they prefer to avoid excessive details.
 * Prefer inductive styles of learning
 * Generally:

Better suited to the communicative approach.
 * - more socially attuned
 * - derive their self-identity from group affiliations
 * - empathetic

Field Independent learners
Field independent learners tend to be more be comfortable with detail.

They tend to be:
 * prefer deductive styles of learning
 * more analytical
 * more confident
 * more competitive
 * more independent

Students respond well to the classic grammar-based language learning environment.