Learner characteristics

They may be used to learning in a particular way and have definite ideas about how to learn best.

• Maturity

• Characteristic

• Learning strategies

• past language learning experience

the functions your brain uses to think, pay attention, process information, and remember things

• strategy

• cognitive skill

• learning

• styles

levels of maturity

• Can concentrate for shorter periods (short attention span)

• Have limited experience of life

• Beginning to learn in abstract ways

• Aware of themselves and their actions

Maturity involves becoming grown up physically, mentally and emotionally

• true

• false

Repeating new words in your head until you remember them. This is an example of:

• learning style

• motivation

• learning strategies

• characteristics

Thoughts and feelings which make us want to continue to want to do something

• physiological needs

• past learning experience

• visual learner

• motivation

The learner likes to decide what he/she learns and how to learn

• Autonomous

• individualy

• group

• impulsive

The learner learns best through being physical, by moving or touching things

• impulsive

• autonomous

• kinaesthetic

• individualy

Children can pay attention to meaning and increasingly to form

• true

• false

teenagers are usually able to control and plan their own behaviour

• true

• false