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Alienated Students . These students react against teaching and learning and are oftenhostile and aggressive. They create discipline problems and make it difficult for thosearound them to work. They require close supervision, and their learning problems areoften related to personal problems.

While classifications such as these capture some useful generalizations aboutstudents interaction patterns in the classroom, most systems of this kind aresomewhat arbitrary, and students may not be classified easily in one category oranother. They may favor one interactional style for one particular learning task andthen adopt a different style for a different task, for example. The usefulness ofclassification systems such as this is simply to serve as a reminder that individualstudents may favor different interactional styles and that there is no singleinteractional style that can be regarded as ideal for all students.