LEARNING STYLES
4A1C0017 徐麗君
4A1C0019 田育淇
4A1C0020 黃暐棋
4A1C0043 高藝芳
• Style is a term that refers to consistent and rather
enduring tendencies or preferences within an individual.
• Visually oriented, tolerant of ambiguity and reflective than
someone would be styles that characterize a general
pattern in your thinking or feeling.
COGNITIVE STYLE
• The way we learn things, link between personality and
cognition; this link is referred to as cognitive style.
• When cognitive styles are related to an educational
context. They are usually referred to as learning styles.
• Such styles can contribute significantly to the construction
of a unified theory of second language acquisition.
FIELD INDEPENDENT
• Field independent style: your ability to perceive a particular,
relevant item or factor in a “field” of distracting items. Field
dependence is, conversely.
• Chapelle and Roberts (1986) found support for the correlation
of a FI style with language success.
• Abraham (1985) found that second language learners who
were FI performed better in deductive lessons, while those with
FD styles were more successful with inductive lesson designs.
AMBIGUITY TOLERANCE
• A third style concerns the degree to which you are
cognitively willing to tolerate ideas and propositions that
run counter to your own belief system or structure of
knowledge.
• Chapelle and Roberts (1986) found that learners with a
high tolerance for ambiguity were slightly more successful
in certain language tasks.
REFLECTIVITY AND IMPULSIVITY
• Doron (1973) found that reflective students were slower
but more accurate than impulsive students in reading, but
warned against assuming that impulsivity always implies
accuracy. Some of her subjects were fast and inaccurate.
VISUAL AND AUDITORY STYLES
• Another dimension of learning style is the preference that
learners show toward either visual or auditory input.
• Visual learners tend to prefer reading and studying charts,
drawings, and other graphic information, while auditory
learners prefer listening to lectures and audiotapes.
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