INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES.

   CHAPTER 5: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES.

  REFLECTION:

  Each person learns in different way in order to their personal characteristics or their personal styles. Styles are specific aspects that differentiate humans. According to those styles, learners can choose the correct strategies or methods as a way for learning information in the process to know a foreign language, to achieve a particular end, or to gain knowledge. Cognitive style refer personality plus cognition. It means that many factors are involved in learning process such as intellect, culture, emotion, reflection, cognition, communication, and environment. In the style list selected by researchers, field independent and sensitive, both are equality important, because distinguishing parts from a whole is as necessary as view the general configuration, idea or event. Interaction learners is necessary for studying groups, because it allow the connection and communication. Intrapersonal learners serve to students for reflection, research by themselves deeply without interruptions, and doing analysis; Kinesthetic learners, good at sports; Verbal learners, good at writing and reading; Visual learners, that prefer study drawing, doing charts and diagrams, and maps; Logical learners, good at math, and solving problems; and Auditory, good at listening sounds. All styles mentioned above have specifically way to apply on learning a second language. Knowing about learner differences is very important for both students and teachers because learning process involves an association between individual stiles and strategies. I mean, that strategies learners need depend of the type of styles or characteristics they have.