Language Learning Style Essay

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The findings of the current study suggest some valuable insights and implications for individual differences of learners in their personality styles with regard to their performance on persuasive writing skill in Iranian EFL context.
Having a sufficient knowledge of language skills is a necessity for a successful language performance. From a theoretical point of view, this research presented individual differences of personality as a potential reason for poor language learning achievement. Besides, learner autonomy and assertiveness are identified as two personality factors that leads to positive changes in learning behavior such as increasing self-confidence, and consequently, initiates improvement in learners ' language skills.
From pedagogical point of view, the present study provided …show more content…

EFL teachers are also responsible for providing students with more opportunities to practice positive social skills and personality traits. It could be done by specifying some assertive and autonomy training sessions for learners in order to make learners aware of these issue in language learning. EFL teachers should also provide friendly and supportive behavior in order to ensure that students feel comfortable and have confidence to produce language.
The results of this study are useful for EFL learners in a sense that they can achieve success in language learning simply by developing positive personality factors such as assertiveness and autonomy. Assertiveness help learners to state their opinions freely, besides learner autonomy lead them to take the initiative role in their learning so that they can learn more things and learn better than people who sit at the feet of teachers. It is important to inform students of assertiveness and autonomy and increase their awareness of assertiveness and autonomy in order to facilitate the language learning

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