A Study Of Matching Learning Styles With Teaching Styles In Middle School ESL Classrooms

In recent years, one topic often referred to in ESL/EFL language teaching is student-centred in classroom teaching. But what is real student-ceatred teaching? To achieve this, teachers should organize their teaching based on not only the teaching contents, but also taking consideration of the learners, the learning process of the learners and their characteristics. As a result, it is very important for teachers to study the learning styles of learners. While in faci, it is often found that learners' learning style sometimes conflicts with teachers' teaching style. This of course affects teaching. To solve this problem, this thesis elaborates on the reason why such phenomena appear and how to deal with the conflicts between learning style and teaching style. The thesis consists of three chapters. Chapter One is an introduction briefing the mismatching between learners' learning style and teachers' teaching style so as to elicit the practical points of writing the paper. Chapter Two is the literature review which reviews the literature of definition and classification of learning styles. Chapter Three makes an analysis of the given examples and finds the cause of the problem and at last puts forward several effective ways to deal with the conflict between learning styles and teaching styles and some suggestions for researchers and teachers to be considered.