Strategies For Coping With Student's Learning Strategies

1 Strategies for coping with with leaners individual differences Understanding students individual difference is a key factor in pre-determining the success of the learning experience. Actually, EFL learners differ from one another in terms race, colour, religion, identity, ethnicity, language, social class, cultural background, intelligence, learning strategies, level of interest and aptitude for learning, etc. Generally, there are three approaches for dealing with students individual differences, namely modifying events of instruction to respond to students distinctive learning strategies, putting kids into different groups helps them learn according to their pace, as well as using a variety of activities that match the leaners various ways of acquiring knowledge. The teachers awareness of the pupils individual differences is a pre-requisite for a successful learning process. Basically, learners belong to different classes, namely the upper, the middle and the lower class. Researches reveal that kids who belong to upper and middle classes show pre-readiness to achieve more academic goals. In the same way, pupils do not learn in the same way. The fact that they make different mistakes while learning shows that they use distinctive learning strategies such as memory, cognitive, meta-cognitive, social strategies, etc. According to Oxford )1998), there are more than