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Language Learning Styles or Strategies There is no doubt about the importance of having a sense of one’s own preferred language learning style when deciding how to learn a language. Whilst there is clearly some truth in the assertion that different people can have different learning styles and we have to pay attention to that in deciding what is the best way to learn ( or teach), there is a lot more to this issue than meets the eye and that is what I want to spend a bit of time looking at here. I have decided to do this as I have seen learning styles sometimes confused with learning strategies and this has created beliefs that are not helpful to improving one’s own learning. Some learners can be heard to say that, “I prefer learning languages through translation or through reading and writing”. They may well prefer that way of learning, and you could argue that hence that is their preferred learning style. Learning styles I would propose are an outcome of our personality type.