Learning Styles

By Horasis Toro Vargas

José Ayala Chico

Omar Cruz

Main aspects

1. Learning Styles: What Are They 1. Learning Styles: What Are They

2. Learning Styles Strategies 2. Learning Styles Strategies

3. Questionnaire about learning styles3. Questionnaire about learning styles

4. Conclusions 4. Conclusions

What is learning?

Learning is acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve

synthesizing different types of information..

What are Learning Styles?

VisualVisual

Kines-thetic

Kines-thetic

Group

Auditory

Impulsive

Are the ways in which a learner prefers to take in.

VisualVisualIndividualIndividual

VisualVisualReflectiveReflective

Learning Styles

•Diagrams and Charts•White Space•Video•Images•Lecture notes into learnable packages.

•Moving

•Doing

•Touching

•Playing

•Role plays

•All your

senses.

•Learners learn best through working with others.

•Group work.

•By peer

•Read your notes out loud•Recall stories, examples, jokes•Tape your notes into a recorder•Use recorded audio lectures

Learning Styles

•Learners learn best when given time to consider choices.

•Learners learn best when they work alone.

•Learners learn best when they are able to respond immediately.

Learning Styles Strategies

Are the ways chosen and used by learners to learn language. They include ways to help ourselves identify what we need to learn.

Learning Styles Strategies

Visual AuralRead/Write

Kines-thetic

•Repeating new words in your head until you remember them.

•Guessing the meaning of unknown words.

•Using the foreign language as much as possible by talking to tourists.

•Recording yourself speaking, then judging and correcting your pronunciation.

•Asking a speaker to repeat what they have said.

•Deciding what area of vocabulary you need to learn and then learning it.

•Face to face interaction.

•Chatting through the facebook.

Questionnaire about learning styles

Questionnaire about learning styles

Conclusions

There are a lot of techniques a teacher can use in order to stimulate the learners learning proccess.

Eases the teaching proccess with different aids and provides each lesson with the proper tool.

Using different learning styles catches the students motivation and increases the teaching effectiveness.

Sources

Learning Styles

Felder & Silverman http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Learning_Styles.html

Fleming, Neilhttp://www.vark-learn.com

Kolb, David A.http://www.learningfromexperience.com

Bibliography of works: http://learningfromexperience.com/research-library/