“The relevance of including activities that promote learning styles to the process of language learning”
Learning styles have been an issue researched by a lot of teachers and pedagogy academicist however, it is important to analyze those styles in the process of language learning. But first, Let’s define what a language learning style is, according to Scarcella & Oxford , (1992) they are “specific actions, behaviors, steps, or techniques --such as seeking out conversation partners or giving oneself encouragement to tackle a difficult language task -- used by students to enhance their own learning” (quoted by oxford, 2003). According to this definition, we must say that learning styles are individual paths that each student follows in order to learn. But we must ask, how important is this for my language classes? They are very important to plan the lessons, but the most important is that teachers must know their group and the learning style that stands out in it. Why? Imagine that you have the solution to give an excellent class and students are going to be very inter...