Styles And Strategies

Styles and strategies.

summary of the Whole chapter. When you have finished the summary answer these questions:

1-Can you state the difference between a style for Learning and a Strategy?
2-How do Personal Styles affect the process of Learning?
3-Do you think considering Learning Strategies is important in the process? Why?
4-Can you state some features of Language Learning Strategies?5-Are strategies always observable? Are they always conscious?
6-Can strategies be taught? How would you teach them? Would you make students aware of their importance ? How? Why?
7-Can you mention At least one classification of strategies?
8-Can you give some examples of tasks you would use to help your students learn strategies to help them in the learning Process?( look for them in sometextbooks you may have used)

1- Differences between Learning Style and a Strategy

|Styles are the general characteristics of intellectual |Strategies are specific methods of approaching a problem or |
|functioning and personality type that are directly related to a|task, modes of operation for achieving a particular end, |
|person as an individual, and that differentiatehim/her from |planned designs for controlling and manipulating certain |
|someone else. |information. |
| | |
|They are general characteristics that differentiate one|They vary intraindividually |
|individual from another. |They are those specific “attacks” that we make on a given |
| |problem. |
||There are two types of strategies: Learning and communication |
| |strategies |
|Learning styles are the “cognitive, affective, and |Learning strategies deal with the receptive domain of intake, |
|physiological traits that are relatively stable indicators of |memory,storage, and recall. Communication strategies pertain |
|how learners perceive, interact with, and respond to the |to the employment of verbal and nonverbal mechanisms for the |
|learning environment” |productive communication of information. |
|They refer to a person’s general approach to learning and are |They refer to aperson’s thoughts and actions, consciously or |
|dependent upon that person’s cognitive, affective and |not, to learn |
|physiological characteristics. |New information. |


2- Learning styles can contribute significantly to the construction of a unifiedtheory of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). The individual learning style of a learner will reflect the strategies that he will use to learn a second language. Student’s learning style is related to individual characteristics and preferences, and it reflects the students’ preferences on how they perceive the environment and interact with this.
For example, some students can have a reflective styleand others an impulsive style. The former invariably grows out of a reflective personality or a reflective mood. The latter usually arises out of an impulsive emotional state. In this point is important to remember that people's styles are determined by the way they internalize their total environment.
Although, the internalization process is not strictly cognitive; it is also physical and...