Unit 13 - LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS

            Unit 13 is about learner characteristics. It mainly focuses on how successful students are at learning a language. We as future teachers should know that when we talk about it, we include the learner's motivation, learning style, learning strategies, maturity. However, those are some factors that we have to take into account when teaching in order to help our students with their attitude they have in the classroom, and I think it is important to realize how they can be better in their learning process keeping in mind the learning styles they have. Furthermore, it talks about learning styles, so it refers to the different ways that students learn. Teachers should instruct their students according their necessities and also investigating the best way to teach each of them. In addition, learning strategies are also the main point here because teachers should know how to deal with that in order to help learners to identify by themselves what they need to learn and also to help them to become independent on their learning process. There are some positive learning strategies that help students to improve the language, but the most important one for me is to give feedback our students in order to progress their language use in a better way.  

You can look here for more information

http://www.unco.edu/cebs/psychology/kevinpugh/5-7320/ITcomponents/learner.html

http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/modules/learners/01/characteristics.php