The document discusses good language learning styles and strategies. It provides examples of two language learners, Amirah and Haikal, and their different learning styles - Amirah prefers reading, speaking with family, and making friends in the target language while Haikal watches movies, sings songs, and learns through pictures. It identifies characteristics of good language learners as finding a suitable learning style, actively engaging in the learning process, communicating in the language, and having long-term commitment.

1. GOOD LANGUAGE
LEARNER’S
Second Language Learning Styles & Strategies

2. HOW CAN A BIRD LEARN TO
FLY WITHOUT SPREADING
THEIR WINGS AND TAKE
THEIR FIRST FLIGHT TO
THE SKY?
~ANONYMOUS~

3. WHAT MAKES A GOOD
LANGUAGE LEARNER?
Learning Styles:
Characteristic Of A Good Language Learner
Auditory Visual / Verbal
Tactile Visual / Non-Verbal

4. BIODATA

5. AMIRAH BT ABDULLAH
Live in Pandan Indah, Ampang, Kuala Lumpur
Love listening to music, reading novels, writing poem or
short stories
Writes short stories and poem or songs on free time.

6. MUHD. HAIKAL BIN SOBRI
Live in Balik Pulau, Pulau Pinang.
 Love reading comics, watching English movie and
dramatization.
 Singing English song for fun

7. LEARNING
STYLES

8. SIMILARITIES
Amirah Haikal
Listening to music Listening to music
Use dictionary to look up
meaning
Use dictionary to look up
meaning
Make own notes Make own notes
Use flashcards and diagram Use flashcards and diagram

9. DIFFERENCES
Amirah Haikal
Reading novels and books Watching movies and
dramatization
Practice speaking English at
home with family
Doesn’t practice speaking
English at home with family
Befriends with someone who
speaks other language
Have local online friends
Read information silently Picture everything in head
Brainstorm with friends Participate in field-trip

11. CHARACTERISTIC OF A GOOD
LANGUAGE LEARNER
Find a learning style that suits them
Actively involved in the language learning process
Try to figure out how the language works
Language is used to communicate
A good detective

12. C O N T.
 Learn to think in the language
Realize that language learning is not easy
Good culture learner ( aware of the relationship
between language and culture )
Long-term commitment to language learning

13. CONCLUSION
 Ability to adapt and speak fluently in language not of their mother
tongue, requires practice and long-term commitment.
 Amirah used auditory, and visual / verbal learning styles.
 Meanwhile, Haikal used tactile and visual/ non-verbal learning styles
 To be fluent in any language you learn, you need to be self-aware,
inquisitive, tolerant, self-critical, realistic, willing to experiment, organized
and actively involved in the learning process.