NOTEBOOK PRESENTATION

Jill Christoffer Teaching Language to Young Learners 06.01.2022

PRESENTATION

Learning Styles

(Lightbrown & Spada, 2013, p. 83)

“individual’s natural, habitual, and prefered way(s) of absorbing, processing, and retaining new information and skills’ “

learning strategies

learning styles

learning types

OVERVIEW LEARNING TYPES

stigma

mixed forms occur

in normal case: mixed form of at least two learning types

for primary school

speaking, writing, drawing, individual-reproducing learner

conversational, contact and personal-oriented learner

• translate information for themselves
• actively express them again
• e.g. vocabulary, dialogues, note-taking (text)

• sympathetic teacher (needs to be strict and act consistenly at the same time)

2 ADDITIONAL LEARNING TYPES

typical measure: embedded figures test - participants are asked to find a simple geometric shape embedded in a more complex one -

field dependent

field independent

• seeing things more holistically (ganzheitlich)

• seperating details from the general background

DISTINCTION COGNITIVE LEARNING STYLES

encourage students to use all means available to them

• no certified relationship between field independent and success
• difficult to determine whether
• learning styles reflect immutable (unchangable) differences
• or develop through experience --> can be changed

Success and learning styles

Thanks!