Concept of learning style

All people learn differently, in the field of language learning, people differently shape the way they learn. In other words, language learner uses different language styles. At school students apply different learning styles and so do in learning English. Learning English as a foreign language of course needs certain learning strategies.

Teachers of English at school should know their student’s learning styles and continually observe the learning styles that are applied or used by their students so that they can adjust to their student’s learning styles. As a result, the teachers can apply accurate English teaching strategies and also motivate the students to learn English well.

Students can understand lesson easily if a teacher’s teaching method can accommodate student’s learning styles. By having their own learning styles, students know subconsciously how to learn English more effectively and also they can decide their own way in which they can learn best and more efficiently.

Students learn in a typical way, w cannot do much to change that fact but we can help them learn to capitalize on their strength as well as cope their weaknesses. As a professional teacher, she / he should be able to facilitate the student to learn. For that, we have to know about their learning styles. Learning style describes the way we learn and how we deal with ideas day-to-day situations in our life.

There are only a few teachers who care to try to find out the learning styles that are used by the students. This can be seen from the fact that teachers tend to only prepare their administrative work in teaching rather than get to know student’s difficulties, let alone student’s learning styles. This case indicates that leaning styles is not many known by the teacher yet.