1. LEARNING STYLES 4A1C0017 徐麗君 4A1C0019 田育淇 4A1C0020 黃暐棋 4A1C0043 高藝芳

2. 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.

3. 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. COGNITIVE STYLE

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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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