Resumen:
Diversity affects the way the students learn, and in some circumstances, this diversity even disrupts
the learning process. Thus, EFL teachers need to use diverse teaching strategies to provide their
students a rigorous, relevant, complex, varied, and flexible instruction that benefits all types of
learners. This paper seeks to understand five important sources of diversity found in EFL classrooms in
Ecuador in order to determine which strategies are effective to address students’ individual needs, and
how these strategies can improve education as a whole in Ecuador.