A Study on the Relationship Between Reflective-impulsive Cognitive Styles and Oral Proficiency of EFL Learners

With the focus of language teaching from teachers to students, personal factors learners have become research. In 1964, Kagan and his colleagues proposed a reflective-impulsive cognitive style(R-I), pair opposing style that can be measured by Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT). believes in dealing with tasks, holding slow but accurate is reflective style, fast inaccurate impulsive style. What’s more, different styles affect learning. For English learners, oral connected output language, students' ability an important part pragmatic competence. The researcher uses MFFT20, combined observation, interview, test evaluate performance 80 high school students middle Chongqing. By analyzing correlation between ability, following results are obtained. First, account for same proportion students. And affects learners. Second, great differences performance. Third, generally speaking, perform better accuracy than while fluency