Learning styles and English teaching

Abstract

Not everybody learns in the same way. There are those who like to have an overall view before getting down in details and those who like to go step by step, those who like rules and those who prefer examples, those who like to take risks and those who prefer to avoid them, those who like to follow a highly organized course with a carefully structured syllabus and those who like to improvise or to change topic or task very often. And, of course, there are those (perhaps the majority) who do all these things at different times, depending on the mood they are in, whether they feel tired or not, their previous experience, the kind of task in question, their resources and their objectives. So it is clear that there are many different approaches to learning a foreign language, many different learning styles.