Native Learning Styles: Shorthand for Instructional Adaptations?

Abstract

A discussion about Native learning styles in the literature is reviewed, and it is argued that the term is ambiguous, and that several of the studies and propositions about Native learning styles go beyond cognitive and interactional categories to further confuse the issue. Nonetheless, the literature can provide some general indications for teachers, not in defining attributions or characteristics of Native learners, but in suggesting things that teachers might be sensitive to, in order to accommodate to a specific situation.