description about what is a learninf style and a learning strategy

1. Learning style and learning strategies
Author:
Leonardo Olaya Suarez
1016019375
Tutor:
UNAD
Teaching English to adolescent and adults
Bogota, Colombia
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2. To begin, I must clarify that not everyone learns the same or in the same way each individual is
different, that is why it is necessary to create different learning strategies, but what it is the
difference between a learning style and a learning strategy. First the learning strategies are the
habitual patterns of perceiving, processing or reacting to information and learning strategies are
specific actions one takes and techniques one use in order to learn.
As I said before everybody learn in different forms one of them is visual learning, this learning
strategy use the visual as an add to learn through sight, Leaver defines two kinds of visual
learners some are imagists and others verbalist. The imagist see a picture of what they have
heard or read. While the verbalist see words of what they heard or think.
Some other learners use the audio to enhance the learning, the auditory learner acquire new
information sound. They associate new words with sounds they already know, pitch, tempo and
intonation also provide clues to the meaning. Leaver divides auditory learners into two groups:
Aural learners and oral learners. Aural learners learn by listening others and oral learners learn
by listening to themselves.
The last of the learning style is motor learning also known as kinesthetic learning, Motor learning
acquires new information through movements, Levers based the motor learning depending of the
part of the body they use, Gross motor muscle (arms, legs or whole body) or fine motors muscle
(finger or hands). The mechanical learners learn by taking notes, writing and coping, they use the
fine motors to learn.
The learning strategies are cognitive, that means learner make and strengthen association between
new and old information and facilitate the mental restructuring of information, some cognitive
strategies are analyzing, reasoning deductively and reductively and facilitate the mental
restructuring.
Some other learning strategies this strategy help learners link a new item with something know,
these devices are useful for memorizing information in an orderly string in various ways string in
various ways, by sound (rhyming) by body movement (total physical response) or by location on
a page or blackboard.

3. The Metacognitive strategies help learners to find themselves, the general learning process and
specific learning tasks. Metacognitive strategies relates to managing the learning process in
general that includes identifying available resources deciding which resources are more valuable.
Compensatory strategies for speaking and writing help learners make up for missing knowledge
using English in oral or writing communication, some of the compensatory strategies include
synonyms, circumlocution and gesturing to suggest meaning.
The affective strategies are those that use the feeling of the learner to help specific learning tasks,
the use of the feelings (anxiety, anger and happiness), and the anxiety of some student is for
communicating in English, some students don’t communicate in class for fear for judgment some
strategies to help these students are deep breathing, positive self-talk and praising oneself.

4. References
 Oxford, R. L. (2001). Language learning strategies. In R. Carter & D. Nunan (Eds.), the
Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages: (pp. 166–172).
https://bibliotecavirtual.unad.edu.co:2300/core/books/the-cambridge-guide-to-teaching-
english-to-speakers-of-other-languages/language-learning-
strategies/758215854B91D0187E83F4E3245CC694