This article presents a new approach to understanding and using cognitive styles to enhance individual language learning. Ehrman and Leaver (2002). Development of a profile approach to learning style diagnosis. Unpublished manuscript; Ehrman, M.E. (2001). Bringing learning strategies to the learner: the FSI language learning consultation service. In: Alatis, J.E., Tan, A. (Eds.), Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative. Washington DC, Georgetown University, pp. 41–58] have established a learner profile schema usable for diagnosis and advising language learners with ten cognitive style dimensions, most of them well-known (e.g., field independence, leveling-sharpening, random-sequential), The model also includes a superordinate construct, called synopsis–ectasis to avoid confusion with earlier names and constructs like ‘global-analytic.’ The article introduces the Ehrman–Leaver Construct and illustrates it with two student cases.