The Relationship Between Learning Styles and Learning Strategies

Learning styles and Language Learning Strategies have been one of the most popular aspects of learners¿ characteristics researchers have focused on in relation to foreign or second language learning. Learning styles are individual's internal , natural or habitual patterns of acquiring and processing information in learning situations(Oxford 1990), while strategies are external skills that play a crucial role in second or foreign language acquisition they also help learners to gather new information , assimilate this acquired information , add it to their previous knowledge,adapat to learning situations and solve problems. (O¿Malley et al, 1985).In this respect, The purpose of this book is to investigate both the learning styles and language learning strategies of University students of English, and to reveal whether there is a relationship between them through analyzing a corpus of data gathered by means of style and strategy inventories of language learning distributed to undergraduate and post graduate university students of English. Accordingly, this book may pertain to language learners, teachers, curriculum developers and researchers in the field L2 learning .