UNIT 13      LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS

The learner´s characteristics are really important in order to have good learning-teaching process since he/she needs to have motivation, learning style, learning strategies, maturity and past language learning experience. All of those things are going to help the learner to achieve the final which to acquire the language. There are many factors that influence a learner to achieve the knowledge, and one thing that I consider as important is the interaction with other people since the learner has the opportunity to have real contact with the language. Learning styles and learning strategies are also important since the learner has to learn the language according to his /her learning style and in this part the teacher play an important role he/she has to be aware of his/her student´s learning style because there visual students, auditory students, kina esthetic students, and according to this they need special activities in order to develop their cognitive skills.

Examples:

• -          As a future teacher I think I will develop my student´s learning styles by doing with them some activities in which they can acquire the knowledge in a good way.
• -          In this part I would like to talk about my French teacher Fanny she used to teach us the language by using many strategies activities in which she incorporated the different learning styles of their students.

References:

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