Learner Characteristics

Question 1

Learner characteristics

Answer 1

These include motivation, learning style, learning strategies, maturity and past language experience.

Question 2

Learning styles

Answer 2

Some of them are: visual, auditory, kinaesthetic (learn best through being physical, while moving or touching), group, individual, reflective, impulsive, analytic and autonomous.

Question 3

Learning strategies

Answer 3

These ones are the ways that learners choose and use to learn language. E.g. repeating new words; taking risks; paraphrasing.

Question 4

Maturity

Answer 4

It involves becoming grown up physically, metally and emotionally.

Question 5

Children characteristics

Answer 5

Necesity to move; short attention spam; learning through experience and doing; not totally cocious of their behaviour; not ashamed of mistakes; attention to meaning; limited experience; developing cognitive skills and motivation is granted.

Question 6

Teenager characteristics

Answer 6

Medium necesity to move; medioum attention spam; beggining to learn in an abstract way; beggining to control their behaviour; worried about being judge; more or less aware of themselves; attention to meaning and incresingly to form; medium life experience; cognitive skills developed (15y); motivation varies.

Question 7

Adult characteristics

Answer 7

Able to keep still for longer periods; longer attention spam; can learn in an abstract way; usually able to control his behaviour; not totally willing to make mistakes; awere of their acctions; can pay attention to form and meaning; with experience; developed cognitive skills; motivation often is conscious.