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UNIT FOUR
LEARNING STYLE OF YOUNG LANGUAGE LEARNERS (PART I)

(INFANCY, TODDLERHOOD, AND PRESCHOOL PERIOD)

A. Description of Course
The concept of learning is influenced by the psychological study of the
learning process and is widely interpreted in the popular use. The psychological

concept extends quite far and includes all parts of children's development, from
language acquisition to social roles and changes in their personality. Language

teaching can be widely interpreted as al activities intended to facilitate and

cause language learning. At the beginning of learning the new language, the
learner's knowledge has none or hardly any associations with the language; it

is as an infant learning its first language.

B. Relevance of Course
The relevance of course is the students will engage their home and society

environment into the activities in this book (as mention details in exercises). In
the exercises, most of activities given is case study. So, the students is allowed

to think critically in group discussion.

C. Learning Outcomes
The students are able to understand and explain the learning styles of infant,

toddlerhood and preschool period and how to optimize them.
D. Detail of Material

In the early 1980s, developmental psychologist and educational

researcher Howard Gardner verified what many parents intuitively know:
different children learn in different ways. Gardner’s observations led him to

publish Frame of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences in 1983. He
asserted that different people approach learning in different ways and that

children learn better in school when their individual learning styles are

recognized and supported. He outlined seven different learning styles: auditory,
visual, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, linguistic and logical-

mathematical. The point is everyone has their own way to learning and
interacting whit the world around them.

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