ABSTRACT
Teaching styles, teaching strategies or teaching modalities are key topics in instructional psychology. Different types of learning may be classified differently. Basically there are two types: expositive and guided-participative. The participative style produces more associative learning. Socio-historical theory explains that teaching strategies are not only different ways to acquire knowledge, they are also systems of activity that have distinctive cognitive effects on the process of learning. Teaching in a conceptual view is communicative interaction addressed to take notice of the symbolic social system called culture. Learning is the internalization in conscience of this communicative interaction. The logical explanation is that the participative style includes all the students as a cognitive group, with their socio-cognitive interactions in the process of teaching. The measure of the independence from the teacher is the linguistic coincidence between the students and the teacher.
