On the Problem of Categorizing Students Based on their Cognitive Styles and Teaching Strategies

The research determines different types of students according to their dominant cognitive learning styles. We are focused on the students of Russian language at high school, acquiring statistical representation of various typological groups we cluster the students into to verify whether the development of metacognitive skills does improve the efficiency of learning foreign languages.The research includes a survey based on the works by Howard Gardner and others. We categorize students according to their dominant cognitive learning styles and corresponding teaching strategies. Two hundred respondents were included in the survey. The paper also provides a historical background of the subject.