Learning Theory

The teacher should constantly adjust their method and teaching

materials on the basis of their identification of the local needs
of their students.
We as learners will identify:
Learner’s belief.
Cognitive style.
Learning strategies.
 Types of Learner’s belief.
Learner’s belief system can in fluency learner’s
motivation to learn, their expectations about language
learning, their perception about what is easy or difficult
about a language as well as the kind of learning strategies
they favors.
Belief about the nature of English: learner’s can find
more easy to find out the difficulties they have in English
and about the status of English in comparison to the
language.
Beliefs about speakers of English: learners often have
specific views and attitudes about native speaker of
English based on their contacts.
 Beliefs about 4 language skills: language beliefs about
language may reflect in specific assumptions about the
nature of listening, spiking, reading, and writing.
 Beliefs about teaching: a student who has been taught
by different teachers may have formed a defined idea
about what constitutes affective or in affective teaching.
 Beliefs about language learning: students bring to the
class very specific assumption about how to learn a
language and about the kinds of activities belife to be
useful.
 Beliefs about classroom behavior: learners may have
views about what constitutes appropriate forms of
classroom interactions and classroom. They may be
culturally based.
Beliefs about self: learners have specific beliefs about
their own abilities as language learners.
Beliefs about goals: learners may have very different
goals for learning a language.
 Cognitive style
Can be thought as predisposition to
particular ways of approaching learning.
Concrete learning style: use active or direct means of
talking.
Analytical learning style: are indipendent,like to solve
problems and enjoy tracking down ideas and
developing principals on their own.
Communicative learning style: prefer a social
approach to learn.
Authority-oriented-learning: are responsible and
dependable.
Visual learners: respond to new information in visual
fashion and prefer visual,pictoral,grafic representation.
Auditory learners: learn best from oral explanation.
Kinesthetic learners: learn best when they are
physically involved in the experience.
Talk tails learners: learn best when they are engaged
in hand or active activities.
Group learners: prefer group interaction and class
work.
Individual learners: prefer to learn on their own.
 Learning strategies

Memory strategies: help student to store information.

Cognitive strategies: enables learners to understand
new language.
Compensation strategies: allows learners to
communicate.
Meta cognitive strategies: allow students to control
their own learning through organization, planning.
Affective strategies: help students to control over their
own emotions.
Social strategies: help learners interact with people.
Thank you for
your attention.
Prepared by:
Salentiana Lato