Kognmeve Stijl en Onderwijsdifferentiatie

This article reports research into the relationschips between four aspects of cognitve style [field(in)dependency, habit-formation, sensitivity to interference, and creativity], and achievement with regard to grammatical competence and oral communicative competence in English. The present investigation also takes into account the relationships between two verbal and two spatial intelligence factors, seven personality traits, attitude to English, socioeconomic background of the pupils, and the intellectual climate at home on the one hand, and the grammatical and communicative achievements on the other. The most important results are presented and discussed.