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lectures, conversations, and oral directions without any visual backup are very confusing and can be anxiety-producing

Another characteristically East Asian learning style is visual learning.

Korean students insist that the teacher be the authority and are disturbed if this does not happen

concrete-sequential, analytic and field-independent styles

They typically base judgement on logic and analysis rather than on feelings of others, the emotional climate and interpersonal values. Compared with American students, Japanese students, like most Asians, show greater reflection (Condon, 1984), as shown by the concern for precision and for not taking quick risk in conversation

Diagnosing learning styles and developing self-aware EFL learners Altering the teaching style to create teacher-student style matching Encouraging changes in students' behavior and fostering guided style-stretching Providing activities with different groupings

ffective matching between teaching style and learning style can only be achieved when teachers are, first of all, aware of their learners' needs, capacities, potentials and learning style preferences in meeting these needs.

In all academic classrooms, no matter what the subject matter, there will be students with multiple learning styles and students with a variety of major, minor and negative learning styles. An effective means of accommodating these learning styles is for teachers to change their own styles and strategies and provide a variety of activities to meet the needs of different learning styles.