The Influence of Individual Differences in Learners' Way of Thinking on English Language Skills-- Mediated by Explicit/Implicit Knowledge

Abstract

In the era of rapid development of information technology, the traditional theoretical and systematic way of learning can not meet the development of human thinking, but also strongly restrict the human individual innovation ability and imagination ability. Based on learning and mastering English language skills as the main research subject, to learners’ way of thinking as the research of the application of media, through the analysis of diff erent student individual explicit/implicit knowledge, explore in diff erent situation of contemporary college students “learning”, its way of thinking on the potential infl uence of language skills.The results show that, under the mediating eff ect of explicit/implicit knowledge, students’ mastery of language skills is closely related to their way of thinking. English language learning strategies based on individual diff erence thinking methods can bring substantial infl uence and eff ect to the improvement of learners’ language skills.