Describing Learners

Age
1. different needs
  1. compentences
    1. cognitives
      1. Beliefs about age and language is that young learners learn faster and more affectively than any other age
Young Children
1. they respond to meaning even if they do not understanding individuals words
2. they find abstract concepts such as grammar rules difficult to graps
3. they often learn indirectly rather than directly
  1. they have need of individual attention and aproval from the teacher
Adolescents
1. most of them understand the need for learning
  1. Adolescents is bound up, after all with a pronounced search for identity and a need for self is bound up after all with a pronounced search for identity and self steam
Adult Learners
1. they have a long range of experince to draw on
  1. they can engage with abtract thought
    1. Adults tend on the whole to be more disciplened then others age group
2. they often have a clear undertsnding of why they are learning

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	Created by tania rojas about 5 years ago