Improving EFL Classroom Interaction by Understanding Students’ Learning Styles

Bui Phu Hung

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Improving EFL Classroom Interaction by Understanding Students’ Learning Styles

Bui Phu Hung

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 2, Issue 6)

Received: 28 November 2014 Accepted: 4 December 2014 Published: 16 December 2014

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Abstract

Multiple Intelligences (Gardner, 1993) postulates a standpoint that people may prefer to learn in different ways as a result of their predominance of different lobes. In particular, some deal well with sounds, but others appear to have a good sense of syntactic areas. It is important for the teacher to understand students’ learning styles in order to help them improve their language competencies to the most. With a sufficient understanding of students’ learning style preferences, teachers can use appropriate strategies and activities in language classes. The research study has proved the matching of teaching and learning styles and the classroom EFL interaction are positively correlated.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 2, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20140206.17
Page(s)	379-386
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Learning Styles, Interaction, Motivation

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Department of Foreign Languages, University of Finance and Marketing, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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