Unit 13 Learner Characteristics

In this unit I learned the most important characteristics of a learner such as motivation, learning style, learning strategies and maturity those are some factors that influence them to learn the language. If we talked about learning styles these are the ways in which a learner naturally take information, each learner has a different learning style, some of them are visual, auditory and kinesthetic.

Learning strategies are also important part to learn and this is the way learners choose and use to learn language, when they use the correct strategy this helps to learn the language better what learners can do is experimenting with the language in conversations, asking the teacher feedback, record themselves and paraphrasing.

Maturity it’s needed when learners want to learn the language, this involves growing up physically, mentally and emotionally. For example children need to be active, they can concentrate for longer period, they learn through experience in contrast teenagers, their concentration last longer than children but still need to be active, they learn in an abstract way. Finally, adults hold their attention for longer periods they learn in an abstract way they are not willing to make mistakes.

Useful resources:        

• http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/seven-characteristics-good-learners/
• http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/pages/characteristics-of-highly-effective-teaching-and-learning-(chetl).aspx