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Message 41 of 42

24 March 2011 at 1:10pm | IP Logged

Iversen wrote:

[Cainntear's] last paragraph also marks an important difference: I do not think that there is one optimal way, but there are certainly many things that don't work for anybody (extreme procrastination, for one) and other techniques which would be useful for most learners if they just could be convinced to try them out.

Cainntear wrote:

I believe in differences, but I believe that they are minor variations, and I believe that all optimal solutions are closely related -- a single, continuous "optimal zone".
Is our only difference the size of this zone?

To a large extent this is true, but we do apparently have different views upon the possible consequences of using methods which individual learners can't adjust to or even hate.

And it seems that I'm somewhat less convinced about the malleability of learners. Actually the separation beween habits and built-in learner types is somewhat blurry - a particularly deeply engrained habit would in my book count as a symptom of belonging to a certain learner type, but in Cainntear's book it would just count as a 'modifiable' habit or preference.

Edited by Iversen on 24 March 2011 at 1:37pm
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Message 42 of 42

20 April 2011 at 4:40pm | IP Logged

I think learning style has to do with so many other aspects of each person that we may be getting ahead of ourselves about this.

One aspect that I think may potentially be relevant is the background knowledge: whether the person is good at maths or music or painting or literature? Because I tend to believe that his or her most strongest abilities would affect the way they learn other skills.

And its other consequence may be about the learning style of abstract-to-concrete or concrete-to-abstract. Many people would prefer learning a lot of example sentences before learning the general rule. Others prefer the opposite.

Many other factors...
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